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Article • December 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Penis Injury in Farming Accident Nets $750,000 Jury Verdict by Pennsylvania Prisoner's Penis Injury in Farming Accident Nets $750,000 Jury Verdict A Pennsylvania prisoner who sustained penis and groin injuries in a farming accident was awarded $750,000. Mr. Hilliard was working on the prison farm while confined at …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Study on Barriers to Employment of Ex-Prisoners in Milwaukee Released by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In early 2007, the Employment Training Institute (ETI) of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee released a study assessing the legal and employment needs of ex-prisoners residing in Milwaukee County. The study of 26,772 adults released …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Confidential Settlement for Alabama Prisoners Killed in Road Work Crew by A confidential settlement has been reached in the death of one prisoner and injury to another. The prisoners, John Nicholas Shoultz and David McKee, were prisoners of the Alabama Department of Corrections. They were picking up trash in the …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
NY Prisoner Who Crushed Thumb Working at Ski Resort Awarded $40,000 by Finding a prison official failed to properly train prisoners to use a log splitter, New York?s Binghampton Court of Claims held the state of New York was 75% liable for injuries sustained from use of that splitter. While …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Forced Work in Dangerous Washington Prison Job Conditions States Eighth Amendment Claim by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that known dangerous prison working conditions can give rise to an Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment claim, even where the prisoner ?volunteered? …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Minnesota Prison Industries Managers Ride High on Prison Slavery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by Minnesota?s Office of The Legislative Auditor (Auditor) has found conflicts of interest, the improper disposition of surplus property, and questionable contracting practices existed at MINNCOR Industries, Minnesota?s prison industry. That special …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge’s House by New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge's House To facilitate learning construction skills, prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) participate in a government-funded private vocational program. That program, the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (OIC), a non-profit, is not …
Arkansas Ups Work-Release Fees to Pay for Guard-Drivers by On October 27, 2006, the Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously voted to increase the daily fees charged prisoners participating in the work-release program from $15 to $17. The increase is to be used to pay for guards to drive the prisoners …
Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers Tennessee DOC's Double Standard by Greg Bowers The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) applies a double standard to ethical violations committed by its employees and those committed by prisoners. TDOC staff who commit ethical violations are typically reassigned. Even when fired, they have …
Fifth Circuit: No FLSA Minimum Wage for Texas Prisoners by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) did not apply to Texas prisoners working in Texas state prisons. Douglas Loving, a Texas state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
North Carolina Women Prisoners Work Call/Bulk Mail Centers For Slave Wages by For slave wages, prisoners incarcerated at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women are working for the North Carolina Department of Commerce, processing bulk tourism mailings and manning a 24/7/364 call center that also acts as the backup …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wages by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a prisoner, who was forced by state prison authorities to perform menial jobs within the prison, was not entitled to minimum "ages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The order dismissing …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $60,000 in Prisoner Work Injury by In November of 1999, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid George Vilsack $60,000. On August 4, 1995, Vilsack, a prisoner Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington fell from a scaffolding. Vilsack was instructed by the DOC …
Washington DOC Pays $10,500 in Slip and Fall by In 1997, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Mark A. Kostatelos $10,500. Kostatelos, a prisoner residing at McNeil Island Correctional Center in Steilacoom County, Washington, worked in the marine maintenance and repair shop as a marine mechanic. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Recreation Injury Suit Settled for $9,500 by In August of 2000, the Department of General Administration paid John E. Karas $9,500. Karas, a prisoner at Pine Lodge Facility in Spokane County, Washington, was ordered by a guard to remove bowling pins as the automatic pinsetter was not operating. …
Washington DOC Pays $4,500 in Kitchen Hose Explosion by On April 11th, David Whitener, a prisoner confined at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington suffered severe burns while working in the institution's kitchen. Whitmer was washing dishes in the dish tank when the hot water hose attached to the …
Prisoners Entitled To Court Access, Can't Be Forced To Work if Disabled by The 5th Circuit has held that prisoners have an actual right to litigate as do other supplicants and that petitioner who submitted a § 1983 lawsuit was entitled to pursue his cause of action even after the …
Denial of Compensation to Unemployed Prisoner Doesn't Violate Constitution by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Pennsylvania federal district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's suit where the prisoner claimed that denial of "idle pay" violated his constitutional rights. Joseph Fidtler sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections …
New Mexico Jail Settles Escapee Murder Suit For $750,000.00 by In 2002, the Taos County Detention Center (TCDC) in New Mexico paid $750,000.00 to settle a law suit filed by George Weiss, the father of Jonathan Weiss. George Weiss claimed that the TCDC officials caused the death of his son, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $3,000 for Failing to Timely Disclose Public Records by The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to pay $2,997.50 to settle a lawsuit under the Public Disclosure Act brought in a Washington Superior Court, Thurston County, by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 76 …
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