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Brief • July 30, 2014
Hickman v. United States (BOP), MN, Complaint - Illegal Imprisonment FTCA - Fair Labor Standards, 2014 CASE 0:14-cv-03041-ADM-JSM Document 1 Filed 07/30/14 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA ______________________________________________________________________ Jermaine Hickman, File No. ______________ Plaintiff, v. COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND United States of America, Defendant. …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Prison Industries in India Compete in Open Market by Prison Industries in India Compete in Open Market The government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is expanding a program that allows prison industries to compete in the open marketplace under the ironic brand name “Freedom.” Prison industry programs already …
Article • June 23, 2014
Inside a Chinese Prison: An American’s Perspective by Foster, Stuart B. Inside a Chinese Prison: An American’s Perspective by Stuart B. Foster I grew up around jails and prisons in the Upstate of South Carolina. My grandfather was born in jail, with the punch line being his father was the …
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Ohio Community Corrections Program Hires Former Prisoners to Work at Supermax by Ohio Community Corrections Program Hires Former Prisoners to Work at Supermax The closure of a minimum-security facility in Ohio created temporary jobs for prisoners who are being released, through a pilot program to help integrate them into society …
Brief • April 24, 2014
Braham v. Lantz, CT, Settlement Agreement, inmate fired from job in retaliation for filing grievances, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT MICHAEL BRAHAM, Plaintiff, : CIVIL ACTION NO. VS. : 3:08CVI564(DEW) THERESA LANTZ, ET AL. Defendants. RELEASE OF LIABILITY AS TO DEFENDANTS KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that …
Ekman v. AZ, AZ, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2014 MICHAEL K. JEANES Clerk at the Superior Court BY kim Whitson, DePUtY Date 03/31/2014 Time 15:27:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Joel B. Robbins (011065) Anne E. Findling (010871) ROBBrNS & CURTIN, P.L.L.C. 301 E. Bethany Home Road, Suite …
Brief • March 29, 2014
Meeks v. Department of Correctional Services, NE, Leg. Bill 949 Approv. Settlement, Wrongful Death - Prisoner Car Accident, 2014 LB 949 LB 949 LEGISLATIVE Approved by the BILL Governor 949 March 29, 2014 Introduced by Business and Labor Committee: Lathrop, 12, Chairperson; Ashford, 20; Harr, 8; McGill, 26; Wallman, 30. …
Coker v. Ryan, AZ, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2014 Document 1 Filed 03/21/14 Page 1 of 15 3 4 5 6 7 JOSEPH E. COLLINS By: Attorney for Plaintiff Arizona Bar #018289 3241 East Shea Blvd., Suite 1 Phoenix, Az., 85028 ( 602) 788-7227 Fax 602-569-6091 j oecollins@collinslaw.net 8 IN …
Garcia v. CoreCivic, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-00268-RHS-LAM Document 1 Filed 03/19/14 Page 1 of 14 IN THE UNITED ST ATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO HENRY GARCIA, Plaintiff, v. No. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, INC., WARDEN TIM MORGAN, JANA MARJENHOFF, M.D., JAY PETERSON, …
Brief • February 21, 2014
Meeks v. Department of Correctional Services, NE, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Prisoner Car Accident, 2014 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LANCASTER COUNTY, NEBRASKA LEONARD MEEKS and MARTELL BUCHANAN, as Co-Special Administrators of the Estate of Joyce Meeks, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, STATE OF NEBRASKA, ROBERT P. HOUSTON, …
Confronting Prison Slave Labor Camps and Other Myths by James Kilgore There are moments when our longings for social justice cloud our vision, times when the way we want the world to be blocks our understanding of the way things really are. A good example of this is the notion …
Brief • November 27, 2013
Renda v. State of Iowa et al, IA, Settlement Agreement, sexual harassment discrimination, 2013 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release is made and entered into by Plaintiff Melissa Lee Renda (Plaintiff), and Roxanne Conlin, and the State of Iowa, Jim Ackles, and Mike Thomas (collectively, the State). …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Audit Reveals Federal Prison Industries Faces Declining Revenue, Job Losses by Derek Gilna A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice highlights the many challenges the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its wholly-owned government corporation, Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI), face with …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Federal Prisoners Paid During Government Shutdown, but Not Prison Guards by Derek Gilna One of the ironies of the recent 16-day federal government shutdown, which ended on October 16, 2013, is that prisoners in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continued to receive their paychecks while BOP workers did not. …
New Hampshire Supreme Court Revives Prisoner's Negligence Action by Last year the New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s negligence claims, finding they were permitted under RSA 507-B:2. On September 9, 2007, New Hampshire county prisoner Dana Chatman was part of a work crew assigned …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Prisoners in Texas Jail Providing Less Slave Labor by According to Taylor County, Texas Sheriff Les Bruce, prisoners at the county jail in Abilene are performing less free labor than in the past. Bruce allowed low-risk prisoners convicted of non-violent offenses to perform work for the county in exchange for …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Texas Prison Burials Surprisingly Well Done by If a Texas state prisoner dies or is executed, relatives or friends can pick up the body. If they don’t, he or she is buried in the largest prison graveyard in the United States – the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. …
Article • August 15, 2013
Maryland Prisoner Gets Sentence Reduction Credits for “Special Project” Work by Bradford Holup, a Maryland state prisoner, received special training to do blood-spill cleanup work and did that kind of work for over two years in Maryland prisons. Blood-spill cleanup work qualifies as “special project” work for which prisoners are …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
South Dakota Non-profits Lose Cheap Prison Labor by Derek Gilna Many states have gotten the message that there are viable alternatives to incarceration that cost less and are equally effective in terms of reducing crime rates, but some non-profits like the Salvation Army are suffering because declining prison populations mean …
$57,500 Settlement for Texas Prison’s Discriminatory and Retaliatory Occurrences by In October 2006, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a suit for alleged discriminatory and retaliatory occurrences filed by former TDCJ's Parole Division Supervisor in San Antonio Manuel M. Mermea, Jr. In June 26, 2003, Mermea filed the …
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