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Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1991
by Mark Cook
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1991, page 3
Prisoners Are Entitled To Recovery For Underpayment Of Wages
Filed under:
Work,
Prison Labor,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Fair Labor Standards Act.
Location:
United States of America.
By Mark Cook, Leavenworth, Kansas
There are over one Million prisoners in the United States, yet we are not counted as part of the US statistical labor force. It is in the interest of those politicians in office who claim their ...
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- The Rich Get Richer
- Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages, by Mark Cook
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- Editorial, by Ed Mead
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- Prison Education, by Paul Wright
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- Death Blossoms, July 15, 1997
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- How to Win Disciplinary Hearings (Book Review), Aug. 15, 1994
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