Skip navigation

Search

683 results
Page 28 of 35. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 | Next »

Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth. Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint that prison officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to file a grievance. Robert Hart, 38, is a prisoner at the 2,800-man Albert …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Washington Jail Trustees Entitled to L&I Benefits by Division 3 of the Washington State Court of Appeals (Div. 3) has ruled that county jail trustees who are hurt while performing their duties are entitled to benefits from Labor & Industries (L&I) under RCW § 51.12.035 et seq. In July of …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
California's Budget Secret: Prisoners Form Core of Forest Fire Fighting Army by Peter Wagner California's Budget Secret: Prisoners Form Core of Forest Fire Fighting Army by Peter Wagner In California, up to three quarters of the crew members fighting California fires are prisoners. In exchange for a reduction in sentence …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
California Prisoner Not Earning Wages Is Denied Workers' Comp by John E Dannenberg California Prisoner Not Earning Wages is Denied Workers' Comp. by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals held that a prisoner injured on his job in the prison laundry was entitled to a $0.00 Workers' Compensation …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Work Release, Work, Prison Labor
Arkansas Work Release Prisoner Entitled to Unemployment Benefits by The Arkansas Court of Appeals, Division, II, held that a work release prisoner who loses his job as a result of a transfer to a prison to prepare him for parole is entitled to unemployment benefits as a result of losing …
Certification for Interlocutory Appeal Order Discussed in California Prison Labor Suit by A California federal district court has declined to certify an order for interlocutory appeal because the factual and legal issues in this case are not complex and will not necessitate protracted and expensive litigation. Richard P. Loritz, II, …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Virginia Prison Vendors Lose Contracts to Out-of-State Supplier by Gary Hunter Three Virginia retailers who made their money from prisoner earnings now find themselves in financial trouble. In August 2003, when the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) relinquished management of prison commissaries to St. Louis-based Keefe Supply Co., three Virginia …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Prison Labor, Medical
Colorado Slammed by West Nile Virus But Ignores Prisoners by Bob Williams Loren Gasiorowski, 41, awoke one morning with a big mosquito bite on his forearm and one on his shoulder. Within days he couldn't leave his cell. After being sick for two weeks he couldn't take it any more. …
Disabled Missouri Prisoner Awarded Backpay after Passing GED Test by The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri found that a disabled prisoner was entitled to backpay because he was not reassigned to a premium pay job after he successfully passed the GED test. James Arlt Jr, a …
Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems by Bob Williams Society is dynamic, in a state of con-stant flux where change is the only constant, but recent changes in Colorado are turning up the pressure in Colorado's prison system. Prisoner pay has been nearly eliminated while hygiene items …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
New York Prisoner Awarded $435,000 in Tire Accident by New York Prisoner Awarded $435,000 in Tire Accident On June 10, 2003, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded $435,000 for pain and suffering to a New York prisoner who was injured when a forklift tire exploded in his …
Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable Under Eighth Amendment by The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that prison officials' forcing of a prisoner to work in excess of a four hour doctor-established daily limit, resulting in dangerous blood pressure elevation, was sufficient to state an Eighth Amendment civil …
California DOC Under Fire For Ex-Con Job Placements by Lonnie Burton In March 2003, California lawmakers launched an investigation seeking information as to why the state Department of Corrections (DOC) assisted in placing former prisoners in jobs that were termed questionable and inappropriate. DOC officials were called to testify and …
$850,000 Settlement in LA County Jail Failure to Medicate Wrongful Death by The County of Los Angeles (LA), California settled a wrongful death claim on March 14, 2003 brought by the wife of an LA County Jail prisoner who died 2 ½ days after incarceration in August, 1999 because he …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Prison Labor Fuels American War Machine by Ian Urbina On April 16, 2003, George W. Bush visited the shop floor at the Boeing plant in St. Louis, Missouri. His 90-minute appearance drew several hundred men and women who help make the military's $48 million F-18 Hornet fighters, 36 of which …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Alabama Highway Labor Kills Three Prisoners, Three More Injured by In a sudden surge of mayhem, three Alabama prisoners were killed in separate incidents and three more were injured. Prisoner highway labor was temporarily suspended. On April 11, 2003, Dairron Clark, 33, was struck and killed by a minivan on …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
California Taxpayer Action Forces Private Employer to Pay Prisoners Prevailing Wages by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Under California Code of Civil Procedure §526a, a private citizen taxpayer may bring an action to compel an officer or agent of a municipality to restrain him from wasteful or injurious …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Arizona Prisoner Entitled to Workers' Compensation Payments During Period of Incarceration by The Arizona Court of Appeals held that a prisoner may collect workers' compensation benefits during his term of imprisonment, despite a 1997 state statute prohibiting workers' compensation payments "during the period of time that [a claimant] has . …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
Page 28 of 35. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 | Next »