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Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories
Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the largest legal sweatshop in America, has jeopardized the lives and safety of untold numbers of prisoners and staff working in its recycling factories, according to a preliminary report in an investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and an evaluation issued ...
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More from this issue:
- Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories, by Brandon Sample
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Allegations of Contraband Smuggling, Sex and Corruption at Texas Prison, by Matthew Clarke
- Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation, by Jordan Flaherty
- U.S. Homeland Security Illegally Drugged Immigrants for Deportation, by Gary Hunter
- Connecticut DOC Settles Prisoner’s Brutal Beating By Ten Guards For $500,000
- Multiple Incidents Indicate Florida Jail Has Culture of Abuse
- Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication, by David Reutter
- Welcome to Fun Day: Crime and Punishment in the United States, by Marie Gottschalk
- Cook County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional, Charges Department of Justice, by David Reutter
- CMS Fails to Treat MRSA Infection; Florida Jail Prisoner Dies
- Oregon Juvenile Facility Warden Indicted; Youth Authority Director Resigns, by Mark Wilson
- Violence and Corruption at Rikers Island; Called a “Battle Camp for Kids”, by David Reutter
- Former PHS Doctor Arrested on Drug Charges
- Prison Health and Self-Care: MRSA, by Michael D. Cohen, MD
- Cold Case Hits Use Vastly Exaggerated DNA “Match” Statistics; Upheld by California Supreme Court, by Matthew Clarke
- $885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse
- 115,000 Florida Ex-Felons Have Civil Rights Restored Under New Rules
- Texas Prison Guard Files False Report, Faces 20 Years, by Gary Hunter
- Los Angeles County Settles For $900,000 After Unattended Prisoner Savagely Beaten By Violent Jail Gang
- Texas Prisoners Pay Parole Consultants Hefty Fees
- TASER Avoids Liability in Three Deaths by Suing Medical Examiner, by John Dannenberg
- $3,540,402.22 Jury Award In California Wrongful Conviction Case
- PR Bonds Plummet in Harris County, Texas as Jail Overflows, by Gary Hunter
- Nurse Pleads Guilty in Death of Florida Juvenile Prisoner
- Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights
- Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners”
- Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly
- $170,000 Jury Verdict in Sacramento Jail Beating
- Costs for San Quentin’s Proposed New Death Row Spiral Upward, by John Dannenberg
- Washington State’s Criminal Libel Statute Held Unconstitutional; Prisoner Disciplinary Conviction Vacated, by John Dannenberg
- Florida Sheriff Sued for Awarding No-Bid Health Care Contract, Receiving Gifts
- Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional
- PHS Receives Three-Year $366 Million Rikers Island Medical Care Contract Renewal Despite Non-Performance Fines for Last Three Years, by John Dannenberg
- Washington Jail Remodel Violated State Law, at a Cost of $51.6 million, by Mark Wilson
- Michigan Escape is Not “Violent Felony” for ACCA Purposes
- Jail Nurse Guilty of Forging Doctor’s Order; Forged Orders Common Jail Practice, by Mark Wilson
- $7 Million in Settlements in Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Death from Medical Negligence, by David Reutter
- Ohio Jail Guard’s Excessive Force Conviction Affirmed
- $1,100,000 Settlement in Juvenile Prisoner Suicide in Union County, New Jersey
- Will California’s $11 Billion Prison Outlay Survive State Budget Cuts?, by Marvin Mentor
- Second Circuit Recognizes Attorney-Client Privilege in Prisoner’s Journal in Prosecution of Rapist Guard
- Rape of Child by Former Washington DOC Director’s Son Spawns Departmental Crisis, by John Dannenberg
- Ex-Con Exposed – Had Posed as a Lawyer, by John Dannenberg
- $5 Million Settlement For Illegal Strip Searches In Las Cruces, NM Jail
- New Jersey Court Enters Preliminary Injunction Barring Women Prisoners at Men’s Prison
- PEW Report: 1 in 99 Adult Americans Behind Bars In 2007, by John Dannenberg
- Maryland DOC Pays $500,000 for Detainee Beaten to Death By Guards
- $7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk
- Georgia Sheriff Must Give Revenue from Prisoner Phone Calls to County, by David Reutter
- Beleaguered Oregon Sheriff Steps Down, by Mark Wilson
- Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured, by Matthew Clarke
- News in Brief:
- Sixth Circuit Now Permits § 1983 Complaint to Proceed Even If Prisoner Did Not Initially Plead Exhaustion Below
More from Brandon Sample:
- Q&A: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Which Errors Are Worth Pursuing?, April 12, 2019
- Guilty Plea Does Not Foreclose Challenge To Constitutionality Of Conviction, U.S. Supreme Court Decides, April 19, 2018
- U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Habeas Relief Citing AEDPA Deference, Dec. 19, 2017
- Maryland Ban on Prisoner's Book Rescinded, Aug. 23, 2016
- Former BOP Guard Convicted In Murder-For-Hire Scheme, Aug. 22, 2016
- Second BOP Guard Convicted In Assault-For-Hire, Aug. 22, 2016
- BOP Dentist Gets Slap On The Wrist for Sex Abuse, Aug. 22, 2016
- Cook County Jail Agrees to Improvements, April 15, 2013
- No More Than 20 Percent Can Be Deducted To Pay Filing Fees, April 15, 2013
- Heck Does Not Apply to Released Prisoner Seeking Damages for Sentence Miscalculation, April 15, 2013
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