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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, …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Businesses, Members of Congress Not Happy with UNICOR by Derek Gilna When a powerful U.S. Senator takes interest in an issue, even a bureaucratic government agency like the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pays attention. Kurt Wilson, an executive with American Apparel, Inc., an Alabama company that makes military uniforms, and …
Brief • February 21, 2014
Meeks et al v. DCS et al, NE, Complaint, inmate work auto 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, Director …
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, …
Criminal Background Checks Criticized for Incorrect Data, Racial Discrimination by Derek Gilna A July 2013 study by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) found that widespread errors in FBI arrest data – which is increasingly relied upon by employers conducting criminal background checks – has reached alarming proportions. According to …
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 • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
China Vows to Finance Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China says it is taking steps to ensure that its prison system is publicly financed and that prisoners receive rehabilitative opportunities. Wu Aiying, China’s Minister of Justice, announced last year that profits …
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
Trustee Awarded $335,407 for Job-Related Accident by Larry D. Hollie, a Louisiana prisoner, was working to repair potholes when the hot mix asphalt truck he was working on suddenly shifted. Hollie fell, hitting his lower back and hip area on the ground. He “suffered a lumbrosacral strain with a herniated …
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 …
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