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Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Prisoners Pursue Prison Industries Litigation Despite Continued Retaliation by Ken Krause By Ken Krause Several prisoners at the Ely State Prison in Ely, Nevada are continuing to litigate despite repeated retaliation by Ely State Prison officials. Kenneth Krause, Edward Wills and David Bean began a federal RICO suit in 1991 …
WI Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wage by In part of the continuing struggle to obtain minimum wages for their labor, five Wisconsin prisoners filed suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. The Wisconsin prison industries program, under the name of Badger State …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? by PLG WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? By P. L. G. During the last session of the Washington State legislature, there was a bill passed mandating that DOC implement …
Prison Slavery Upheld, Again by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Prisoners in various Minnesota correctional facilities filed a class action suit in an effort to secure minimum wages for the work they performed in the many prison industries. The industries in question produce items such as furniture, truck and auto …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Court Defines Applicability of Fair Labor Standards Act Many years have passed since the era of liberal court rulings in the field of prisoners' rights. These ground-breaking decisions were handed down in the wake of a …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The 1993 session of the Washington State Legislature has passed a new law that will dramatically increase the number of prisoners working in this state's institutional industries. Governor Lowry should have signed Senate …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
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Minimum Wage for Cons Studied by Congress by In an effort to reverse a federal court ruling that would allow inmates holding prison jobs to be paid the minimum wage of $4.25 an hour, members of congress and state prison directors have launched an effort to reverse the ruling, in …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
AT&T Exploits Prison Labor by The phone company has found a way to dump union workers, save big money and exploit the labor of prisoners, all at once. According to reports from the Communications Workers, AT&T is contracting out telemarketing jobs to firms that provide labor practically free through the …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Kentucky Cons Used as Scabs by Prisoners from a privately-run jail in Louisville, Kentucky have been used as scabs in the three-month-old strike by UFCW Local 227 against Fischer Packing Company. The prisoners were brought into the plant after the strikers rejected the company's "best and final offer" by a …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Article Clarification by J.D., Lompoc, CA Received your August issue and as good as ever, but one story had me a little uncomfortable. The article about the Lompoc Prison Strike...the source Out of Time (3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA) [ PLN , vol. 3, #8 August] The United States …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Slave Labor in the U.S. by Joe Mowish Prison Slave Labor In The U.S. By Joe Mowish [The following is a letter to Business Week concerning an article they published on prison slave labor in China. ] Ihave read your article of December 30, 1991 and I agree the …
Cons Entitled to Minimum Wage by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax In an encouraging decision, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that prisoners employed by the industry program in Arizona state prisons must be paid minimum wage. Arizona prisoners are required by statute to "engage in hard …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
U.S. Made Prison Products in China's News by U.S. Made Prison Products In China's News China, taking the offensive in its spat with Washington over prisoner-made products, recently saturated its national media with an American magazine's account of U.S. industry's profitable exploitation of American prisoners. China's national television news and …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Prisoners' Participation in Work, Training Reduces Recidism, Improves Behavior by Federal Bureau of Prisons announces results of study Prison inmates who have jobs or receive vocational training while incarcerated are better prisoners and are less likely to commit new crimes or become parole violators once they are released, according to …
No Minimum Wages for Convicts by No Minimum Wages For Convicts Prisoners are not entitled to minimum wages or overtime pay, according to a federal appeals court. Prisoners who worked in the plasma program operated by a private company (Cutter Biological) on prison grounds sued, asserting that they were covered …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Racial Discrimination at Raiford by Darryl Conquest Racial Discrimination At Raiford The prison population at gulag Union Correctional Institution (UCI) in Raiford, Florida, borders on 1,500 captives. The population is made up of approximately 800 Blacks (55%), 675 Whites (43%), and 120 Hispanics (7%). Under the compulsory slave labor theme …
Women Prisoners Entitled to Equal Education by Women Prisoners Entitled To Equal Education Glover v. Johnson, 934 F.2d 703 (6th Cir. 1991) is a class action suit originally filed in 1978 by female Michigan state prisoners claiming violation of their right to equal protection because they were not provided with …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Texas Prison Officials Indicted by The manager and bookkeeper at a Texas prison textile mill were indicted April 25 in Huntsville on charges of theft, official misconduct and engaging in organized crime. Authorities said the indictments stemmed from a two-yearlong scheme involving bid rigging and kickbacks on installation and service …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Federal Court Upholds Slave Labor by Can a Mississippi prisoner collect damages for a violation of his constitutional and civil rights because he was forced to work on private property without pay? The U.S. Court of Appeals says no, even in the face of a state law prohibiting inmates from …
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California State Auditor Prison Industry Report 2011 California Prison Industry Authority It Can More Effectively Meet Its Goals of Maximizing Inmate Employment, Reducing Recidivism, and Remaining Self-Sufficient May 2011 Report 2010-118 Independent NONPARTISAN TRANSPARENT Accountability The first five copies of each California State Auditor report are free. Additional copies are …
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