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Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Utah Prisoners May Build Own Cages by In a 1997 Utah state budget bill, the legislature directed that an "inmate construction and building maintenance" program be developed. "The purpose of this program should be to expand inmate employment in construction-related fields in order to provide training for the inmate and …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Leon County Employees Replaced by Slaves by Leon County, Florida, sheriff Larry Campbell beamed with pride as he watched one of his campaign promises come true. Fourteen zebra-striped prisoners filed onto a bus waiting to take them to their first day of forced labor clearing brush along county roads. Campbell …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Arizona Death Row Chain Gang Killing by PLN has previously reported how the death row chain gang in Arizona has resulted in numerous incidents of violence, including prisoners being wounded by shotgun blasts to quell fighting. On July 9, 1997, the violence took a bizarre and deadly turn. On that …
NM Prisoners Refuse to Break Rocks by New Mexico state corrections chief Rob Perry announced a proposal in June 1997 to allow disciplinary segregation prisoners to reduce their seg time if they agree to break rocks with sledgehammers. The proposal may have had more to do with publicity than punishment. …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Sewing Our Own Destruction by Ray Luc Levasseur When I saw Dan Pens' front page PLN article [Oct. '96] on UNICOR production of bullet resistant vests (there's no such animal as "bullet proof" vests) I was struck by the difference in perspective. I read some of the same material he …
Court Allows Silencing of Environmental Whistle-Blower by Paul Wright If a business near your home was dumping raw sewage into rivers and improperly storing toxic materials that contaminated your drinking water supply, would you want to know about it? Would you be grateful if an employee reported this to the …
Same Sex Harassment of Prisoner Workers Okayed by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that male prisoners have no clearly established right to be free from sexual harassment by male work supervisors. Herman Blueford, a California state prisoner, filed suit claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Washington Prison Food Factory Cooks Up Controversy by The idea was peddled to the Washington state legislature as a scheme to save tax dollars: a giant prison food factory manufacturing institutional meals on a vast scale for sale to other prisons. "Build it," they said. When the $3.5 million "Correctional …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Trouble Coming Every Day; ADX-The First Year by Ray Luc Levasseur Society reflects itself in the microcosm of prison. From a class-based, economically driven, racially motivated construct devolves life as a series of Chinese boxes -- a set of boxes decreasing in size so that each box fits inside the …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Texas Sheriff Exploits Prisoner Labor by Lubbock county sheriff Sonny Keesee runs an auto repair shop with a twist. Most of its customers are sheriff's deputies. The mechanics are jail-detainees hand-picked for their mechanic skills. Andy Gentry, a Lubbock county sheriff's deputy, got the engine of his 1989 Toyota replaced …
America's Private Gulag by Ken Silverstein What is the most profitable industry in America? Weapons, oil and computer technology all offer high rates of return, but there is probably no sector of the economy so abloom with money as the privately-run prison industry. Consider the growth of the Corrections Corporation …
Massachusetts Prisoners Awarded Back Pay by A Mass. superior court judge ruled the state owes 2,253 current and former state prisoners about $1 million because they were not given a pay raise mandated by DOC regulations. In April 1991, new DOC regulations were issued that raised the top rate for …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
California Slave Labor Loses Money by In California there is a prisoner work program that is supposed to save taxpayers up to $50 million a year. However, a new study has shown that taxpayers are shelling out $180,000 annually. The program generates about $340,000 a year for the state, but …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
California PIA Employees Lose Minimum Wage Suit by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit by California Prison Industrial Authority (PIA) prisoners who filed suit claiming they were entitled to the minimum wage under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Washington Union Sues over Prison Slave Labor by On August 29, 1996, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) local 970 filed suit in Pierce County (Tacoma) superior court over the use of prison labor to expand the Cedar Creek Correctional Center. The prisoners are paid between 50¢ and $1.40 an …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Making Slave Labor Fly: Boeing Goes to Prison by Paul Wright With the repeal of welfare, some political opportunists and right-wing pundits are turning their sights on questions of law and order in general and prison "reform" in particular. They are starting to push Congress to impose the same solution …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
New Plantation by Bill Dunne In the new world order, the ideological concerns that previously persuaded the capitalist ruling class to purchase social and labor peace with a comparatively generous social contract and high living standards no longer hold sway. The US ruling class will need to take drastic measures …
County Liable for Trustee's Work; No Remedy for Illegal Detention by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a county was properly liable where it did not reimburse a jail detainee for work he performed on public property. The court also held that a pretrial detainee's work …
Second Circuit Rejects Prison FLSA Claim, Modifies Standard by [Editor's Note: The following article is the first of a three part series on prison slave labor. The other two articles will appear in the next two issues of PLN.] The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Labor and Private Profit by Adrian Lomax Wall Street wheeler-dealer Irwin Jacobs, known as "Irv the Liquidator" for his leveraged-buyout exploits in the 1980s, is always looking to turn a profit. One of his current business ventures refurbishes and repackages items that customers have returned to retail stores. When …
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