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No Right to Wages Under Interstate Compact
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 12
No Right to Wages under Interstate Compact
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Work,
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Interstate Corrections Compact.
Locations:
Arkansas,
Missouri.
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that neither the Interstate Corrections Compact nor Missouri state law required that Missouri prisoners held out of state be paid for their labor. Kenneth Jennings was a prison guard at the Missouri State Penitentiary ...
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