This report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics provides statistics on whether individuals in prison were required to have a work assignment, the types of work they performed while incarcerated, and reasons they chose to have a work assignment if one was not required.

The findings in this report are based on data collected in the most recent Survey of Prison Inmates, which was conducted in 2016 through face-to-face interviews with a national sample of federal and state prisoners.

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