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Virginia Prisons 'Wide Open to Business'
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1998
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1998, page 1
Slave Labor Meets Hollywood
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Industries.
Location:
Virginia.
In a warehouse near the Baltimore airport in 1997, California businessman Trek Kelly observed a supplier peeling tags off crates of merchandise. Later he found a tag that had been overlooked. A tag with the words "Virginia State Prisons" printed on it.
At the time, Kelly, …
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