Since providing the means and attitudes to be a success at employment reduces the need to commit crime, inmate employment training and the development of marketable job skills should reduce recidivism. This has not occurred due to a lack of focus on rehabilitation in inmate employment, failure to set and enforce production standards, and the provision of training in unmarketable job skills. The use of a free world model for inmate employment can enhance the rehabilitative effect of employment and training. This includes the use of efficient management techniques, production standards, and accounting principles; paying prevailing wages; requiring inmates to make the same economic choices as free-world employees; and ensuring employment protections similar to those afforded the nonprisoner work force. The Model Sentencing and Corrections Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws should be reviewed by prison systems as a model act for real-world employment in prison. 90 footnotes.