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Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
“The Worst Kind of Work” Thai Prisoners Forced into Labor, Often Without Pay by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In February 2022, watchdog groups called for a U.S. ban on imports of fishing nets from Thailand, after a December 2021 report by Thomson Reuters Foundation that found some of that …
Brief • July 13, 2022
Gomez v. The GEO Group, CA, Complaint, Forced Labor, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00868-BAK Document 1 Filed 07/13/22 Page 1 of 50 1 GAY C. GRUNFELD – 121944 ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 2 MICHAEL FREEDMAN – 262850 JESSICA WINTER – 294237 3 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 101 Mission Street, Sixth …
Brief • July 1, 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
Barrientos v. CoreCivic, GA, Memorandum of Law, Unfair Labor, 2022 Case 4:18-cv-00070-CDL Document 239-1 Filed 07/01/22 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION WILHEN HILL BARRIENTOS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CORECIVIC, INC., Civil Action No. 4:18-cv-00070-CDL (REDACTED) Defendant. MEMORANDUM OF LAW …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
Ineffective Mississippi Prison Industries on the Chopping Block After Scathing Report by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye On April 18, 2022, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed House Bill 863, legislation that will repeal the 32-year-old law creating the Mississippi Prison Industries Corporation (MPIC), a non-profit entity tasked with providing …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Prison Labor
Illinois Inspector General Finds Prisoner Labor Used to Benefit DOC Employees by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In a report released on October 24, 2021, the Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General (OIG) found that state prisoners had been improperly used to wash cars, shine shoes, give haircuts …
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
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