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Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System

The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS) supports the Federal Judiciary by effectively transporting prisoners who are in the custody of federal law enforcement agencies. JPATS also provides international flights to remove deportable aliens.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • JPATS addresses a specific and significant need by transporting prisoners, detainees, and aliens. JPATS continues to conduct more air movements and move more Federal prisoners and detainees while optimizing the availability of JPATS-owned aircraft.
  • JPATS has developed meaningful and aggressive performance goals, such as the cost per hour of flight and the number of accidents involving JPATS aircraft and escapes from JPATS aircraft.
  • Though JPATS has been the focus of several evaluations conducted by the public and private sector entities, the program has not established independent evaluations of sufficient scope to measure program performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Seeking an independent assessment of the program by the General Services Administration's preeminent committee on aviation resource management.
  • Reviewing and analyzing current baseline metrics and targets quarterly to ensure that JPATS is meeting or exceeding current performance measures.

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