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Publication • 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
Captive Labor-Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, 2022 ACLU AND GHRC RESEARCH REPORT Captive Labor Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers Captive Labor 1 ACLU AND GHRC RESEARCH REPORT Captive Labor Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers ~ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO W THE LAW SCHOOL Global Human Rights Clinic © 2022 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION …
$14.3 Million in Costs, Attorney Fees and Interest Awarded Against GEO Group in Suits for Not Paying Minimum Wage to Immigrant Detainee Workers in Washington by Matthew Clarke Brings total the firm is ordered to pay to $37.6 million by Matt Clarke On December 14, 2021, a Washington federal court …
Article • March 22, 2022
Colorado Prisoners Sue DOC and Governor for Violation of State Constitutional Prohibition Against Slavery by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 15, 2022, two prisoners at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the State of Colorado, Governor Jared …
Fifth Circuit Holds Private Immigration Detention Facilities Are Subject to Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s Prohibition Against Coerced Labor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After a trio of federal court rulings in 2021 regarding the labor of immigrant detainees, the first one remained the clearest victory so far for plaintiffs. …
Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity for Failure to Protect Michigan Prisoner from Unsafe Working Conditions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on August 24, 2021, that two Michigan prison employees were not entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
Corporations Using Prisoners to Fight Phantom Labor Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Recently, during an industrial conference, executives from Waste Management Services (which recorded $15.22 billion in 2020 revenues), discussed using immigrants as truck drivers, and other industry executives suggested using prison or work-release programs to fill openings …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Colorado Using SWIFT but Cheap Wildlands Firefighters by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For many years PLN has reported on prison systems across the nation like those in Arkansas and Texas that pay prisoners nothing for the work they are required to perform. Others, like Louisiana, pay only pennies per …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Forty-One Oregon Prisoner Firefighters have Sentences Commuted by Oregon endured a devastating wildfire season in 2020. The fires raged across the state incinerating over one million acres of land and more than 4,000 homes. Prisoners enslaved in the Oregon Department of Corrections stepped up to assist their fellow citizens, risking …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Jury Orders GEO Group to Pay $23 Million for Immigrant Detainee Slave Labor in Washington by In a landmark case, a federal jury decided against the GEO Group for paying $1 dollar a day wages to immigrant detainees at its privately-operated prison in Washington. The facility in question is …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants by A class action lawsuit alleges that the Salvation Army’s adult drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and adult rehabilitation programs violate California law by failing to treat participants in those programs as employees. The civil complaint was …
Brief • November 4, 2021
State of WA v GEO Group, WA, Amended Civil Judgment, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05806-RJB Document 633 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 STATE OF WASHINGTON, 7 Plaintiff, 8 THE GEO …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
California Fire Crew Prisoner’s Escape Attempt Leaves Trail of Destruction by A California prisoner who tried to escape in a stolen fire truck left “half a block of destruction.” He was caught shortly after he tried to carjack another vehicle. On July 5, 2021, the prisoner was working on the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Louisiana Prisoners Used as Slave Labor During Hurricane Ida, Families Left in the Dark for Weeks by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar When Hurricane Ida made landfall this past summer, it was the deadliest and most destructive to hit Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, many prisoners were not evacuated …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
Oregon Suspends Outside Prisoner Work Crews After Prisoner Escape Sparks International Incident by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 22, 2021 Oregon prison officials suspended outside prisoner work crews “in order to review any potential changes following a walk away earlier this year” according to an internal memo sent …
Brief • October 29, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 2, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 519 Filed 10/29/21 Page 1 of 1
Brief • October 27, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 1, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 508 Filed 10/27/21 Page 1 of 1
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor
Pushing Back on Prison Labor by Lilah Burke Public institutions often have ties to state-run prison labor companies. Students at one university system are trying to challenge that. by Lilah Burke, Inside Higher ED New York governor Andrew Cuomo walks past cells in Clinton Correctional Facility in 2014. Lots of furniture at …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor
South Carolina Law Review, Vol 72, 2021 SOUTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW VOLUME 72 2020–2021 NUMBERS 1–4 BOARD OF EDITORS MORGAN E. SPIRES Editor-in-Chief RYAN T. ROMANO Managing Editor JORDAN T. DEJACO ROBERT D. HOLLAND III ANDREA L. MCDONALD ANNA C. PARHAM JESSICA B. THOMPSON Associate Editors-in-Chief CAROLINE K. AVANT TIM …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor
Prison Labor - the Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration 2021 Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration∗ Belinda Archibong Barnard College † Nonso Obikili ‡ ERSA and Stellenbosch University January 29, 2021 Abstract Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor
Bloody Lucre - Carceral Labor and Prison Profit BLOODY LUCRE: CARCERAL LABOR AND PRISON PROFIT Laura I Appleman1 The pursuit of profit is inextricably intertwined with America’s system of carceral labor and criminal punishment. Along with the institution of slavery, the harnessing of involuntary carceral labor yielded enormous proceeds through …
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