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Article • October 15, 2005
California Auditor: Prison Industries Loses Money and Fails to Demonstrate Rehabilitative Success by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Prison Industry Authority (PIA) loses money in 20 of 28 enterprises it operates in CDCR prisons, provides rehabilitative work for a declining number of prisoners in …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury by On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at …
Kentucky State Auditor Blasts Prison Industries After $377K in Undeposited Payments Found in Manager’s Desk by by Matthew T. Clarke It is hard to imagine the surprise of Kentucky Correctional Industries (KCI) employees when they discovered $377,751.86 in undeposited payments in a KCI manager’s desk in April, 2004. As a …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury by by Michael Rigby On February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center. Plaintiff Brian Dodd, …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Noncompliance With South Carolina Prevailing Wage Statute Grievable by by Michael Rigby The South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the decisions of two circuit courts regarding the application of South Carolina's Prevailing Wage statute to prisoners. South Carolina's prevailing wage statute, S.C. Code Ann. 24-3-40, -410, -430 (Supp. 2002), requires the …
Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Republican State Representative Ray Allen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, has been using his state employees and state equipment to operate a private firm that specializes …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity, Attempt Coverup by South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity, Attempt Coverup by Michael Rigby Officials at South Carolina's Lieber Correctional Institution (LCI) were supposed to be supplying free prison labor to a charity that builds portable housing for the elderly. Instead, they were stealing …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
South Carolina Prison Industry Program Problematic, Audit Finds by Michael Rigby South Carolina Prison Industry Program Problematic, Audit Finds by Michael Rigby The prison industries program of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is improperly managed, likely displaces workers in the surrounding community, and creates an unfair advantage in …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As early as 1980, drugstore mogul Jack Eckerd was convinced a private company could provide higher profits to Florida if it ran the state's Prison Industries. After Eckerd's lobbying of the Florida Legislature, that Legislature enacted …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Washington Prison's Water System and Meat Contaminated With Feces by Roger Smith On August 20, 2004, fecal coliform and E. coli were found in the water system at the McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC) near Steilacoom, Washington. E. coli was also found in about 6,000 pounds of ground beef produced …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Washington Prison Labor Program Struck Down by Paul Wright by Roger Smith & Paul Wright In a rare reversal of its own prior ruling, the Washington state supreme court has ruled that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) must stop "letting out" convict labor to private businesses. The court found …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
California Prisons' Joint-Venture Program Under Statewide Court Injunction by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On February 17, 2004, the Superior Court of San Diego County entered a two-year injunction against the State of California and its state prison Joint Venture prison-labor contractors, requiring compliance with the California Labor …
Certification for Interlocutory Appeal Order Discussed in California Prison Labor Suit by A California federal district court has declined to certify an order for interlocutory appeal because the factual and legal issues in this case are not complex and will not necessitate protracted and expensive litigation. Richard P. Loritz, II, …
Escaped New Hampshire Prisoners Caught Camping by Gary Hunter Three escaped New Hampshire pris-oners were captured at a Massachusetts campground just one day after their daring daylight getaway. Kevin Gil, Philip J. Dick and Christopher McNeil negotiated their temporary freedom from New Hampshire State Prison (NHSP) in Concord by cutting …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Prison Labor Fuels American War Machine by Ian Urbina On April 16, 2003, George W. Bush visited the shop floor at the Boeing plant in St. Louis, Missouri. His 90-minute appearance drew several hundred men and women who help make the military's $48 million F-18 Hornet fighters, 36 of which …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Cheap Mexican Prison Labor Exploited by U.S. Firms by Even with U.S. laws prohibiting the importation of commodities produced with prison labor, prison officials in northern Mexico report that prisoners there are making furniture headed for Texas. Moreover, they're pursuing more contracts with American companies to produce a variety of …
Washington Retaliation Suit Settled for $2,500 by On February 27, 2002, the Washington DOC settled a prisoner claim of retaliation for his having filed a grievance and a lawsuit, for $2,500. Airway Heights Correctional Center prisoner Douglas Gallagher was employed in the food factory production facility on a day when …
California Taxpayer Action Forces Private Employer to Pay Prisoners Prevailing Wages by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Under California Code of Civil Procedure §526a, a private citizen taxpayer may bring an action to compel an officer or agent of a municipality to restrain him from wasteful or injurious …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
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