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Minimum Wage for Cons Studied by Congress
Loaded on May 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1993, page 8
In an effort to reverse a federal court ruling that would allow inmates holding prison jobs to be paid the minimum wage of $4.25 an hour, members of congress and state prison directors have launched an effort to reverse the ruling, in Hale v. Arizona, Nos 88-15785 and 89-15162, handed ...
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