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Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Ohio Facility is Recycling Trash, Saving Money Thanks to Prisoners’ Slave Labor by Joe Watson Recycling was a foreign concept to Randy Cantebury, a training officer at the medium-security Marion Correctional Institute (MCI) in Marion, Ohio. In early 2011, MCI prisoners told Cantebury, who runs the facility’s gardening and aquatic …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Fourth Circuit Remands Prisoner’s Equal Protection Claim by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On March 17, 2011, in an unpublished per curiam decision, the Fourth Circuit remanded a prisoner’s equal protection claim that alleged black prisoners were routinely ordered to perform more degrading tasks than their white counterparts, and that …
BOP Staff at FMC Lexington Recover Monetary Damages and Attorney Fees for Privacy Act Violations by Derek Gilna In a lengthy decision, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that approximately 100 employees of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) could recover damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Workers’ Comp Claims by Illinois Prison Guards Under Investigation by David Reutter Illinois taxpayers have shelled out over $10 million to settle workers’ compensation claims filed by employees at the Menard Correctional Center (MCC), mainly related to repetitive trauma injuries. However, a study concluded that the job duties guards are …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Agreement Between Florida DOC and DOT Steals 1,000 Freeworld Jobs by David Reutter With an economic malaise still affecting the nation, millions of people are looking for work. Florida is among the states that have seen job losses over the past four years, and ex-cons are especially hard-pressed to find …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Washington Prisoner Killed During Prison Industries Escape Attempt by A Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) prisoner was shot and killed at the Clallam Bay Corrections Facility during a June 29, 2011 escape attempt. At approximately 10:00 a.m., state prisoner Dominick Maldonado, 25, used a pair of scissors to take a …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Arizona Ranchers Use Prison Labor to Construct Erosion-Prevention Dams by Whitewater Draw near McNeal, Arizona is a unique desert wetland with a shallow lake that hosts thousands of Sandhill Cranes and other water fowl. Water comes to the 600-acre wildlife area from the mountains that ring Sulfur Springs Valley. However, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Prisoners Contribute to Flood Control Efforts in Louisiana by In May 2011, as the rising Mississippi River threatened to flood vast stretches of riverfront territory, Louisiana prisoners from a number of parishes, including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Pointe Coupee and Concordia, filled sandbags in an effort to save lives, buildings …
Fight Brewing Between County Jails and Private Prisons in Kentucky by A bill introduced in the Kentucky legislature proposed removing approximately 3,500 Class D state prisoners currently held in county jails and transferring them to private prisons owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Opponents claimed the bill …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
California Prison Industry Authority Offers to Replace Offensive Grave Markers by Over fifty years ago, during the construction of Folsom Dam, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needed to relocate graves from a California grave site known as Negro Hill Cemetery. The Corps moved the graves in 1954. It even …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Aramark Loses Laundry Contract to Oregon Prisoners by Effective June 2011, prisoners at the Oregon State Penitentiary took over the job of cleaning microfiber mop heads for the Salem Hospital. The hospital previously contracted with Aramark Uniform Services to clean its mops, but on March 10, 2011 the hospital gave …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Prisoners Contribute to Flood Control Efforts in Louisiana by In May 2011, as the rising Mississippi River threatened to flood vast stretches of riverfront territory, Louisiana prisoners from a number of parishes, including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Pointe Coupee and Concordia, filed sandbags in an effort to save lives, buildings …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Requests for Hawaiian Prisoner Workers Soar Due to Poor Economy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As budgets for nonprofit groups, schools, churches and state and city agencies have been squeezed, requests for Hawaii prison work crews to help with repair and maintenance projects have increased exponentially. Prison officials …
Article • November 15, 2011
Arizona Court of Appeals Authorizes Attorney Fees in Bilke Minimum Wage Class-Action Suit by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke On January 29, 2009, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that plaintiffs’ attorney fees must be paid by the state in the Bilke case. Mitchell Paul Bilke, Charles Roberts, Kenneth Asherman, …
Article • November 15, 2011
Settlement Payments for Work Related Injuries Do Not Begin Until After Release from Prison by Settlement payments for work related injuries do not begin until after release from federal custody, U.S. magistrate Judge Brain Owsley held in April 30, 2008. On March 21, 1997, Jerry L. Thompson, a federal prisoner, …
Article • November 15, 2011
Unsafe Working Conditions Suit Allowed to Proceed Against Pennsylvania Prison Officials by U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson has granted in part and denied in part a motion for summary judgment filed by prison officials accused of deliberate indifferent and negligence. Keith Petry sued various Pennsylvania prison officials alleging 8th …
Report Finds Federal Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Metals in Recycling Jobs by A four-year study by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), released in October 2010, found that prisoners and employees at ten federal prisons were exposed to hazardous metals and materials while handling electronic …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Florida’s Prison Industry Criticized for Failing in Mission by David Reutter Florida’s prison industry program is “making a few people very wealthy while operating ... in a manner entirely inconsistent with its mission,” according to advisors to Governor Rick Scott, in a transition report released in December 2010. The mission …
Article • September 15, 2011
South Carolina DOC Must Establish Grievance Procedure For Crime Victims' And Prisoner Dependents' Claims Over Prison Industry Wages by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 7, 2007, the Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) must allow prisoners' dependents, as well as …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
UNICOR Wins $20 Million No-Bid Body Armor Contract by On March 9, 2011, the U.S. Army announced that it had awarded a $20 million no-bid contract to Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, to fulfill an order for body armor. The U.S. military is one of UNICOR’s top customers; …
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