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Alabama Supreme Court Sidesteps Merits of Suit Challenging Contracted Prison Labor by The Alabama Supreme Court denied class certification and sidestepped ruling on the merits of a prisoners claim that prison officials illegally contracted out his labor to a private company. Before the Court was the appeal of prisoner Darrell …
Georgia Prisons: A Blight On The Peach State by Michael Rigby During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Shermans devastating march through the South was a blight on Georgia and all who lived there. Today, the safety of many Georgians particularly the 50,000 confined in the states 37 prisons is …
Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons by Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court affirmed a lower courts decision that held prisoners are not entitled to the minimum wage provision of the Fair Labor …
Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement by A Michigan federal district court has approved a settlement awarding $855,000 in a class action alleging the conditions of confinement for women at the Livingston County Jail were disproportionate to that of men held at the jail. The …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Filed under: Work Release, Work, Prison Labor
Prisoners Labor at Wisconsin Wal-Mart Site by by Michael Rigby Wal-Mart is using prison labor to build a new distribution center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Local residents have expressed safety concerns and also worry that lower paid prisoners are siphoning jobs away from the community. Prisoners working at the Wal-Mart …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract by The prison and military industrial complexes have collided, with a private military contractor poised to make millions off the sweaty backs of prisoners. Pennsylvania-based Woolrich Inc. plans to use the labor of federal prisoners to fulfill two multi-million-dollar contracts …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries, Food
Death Penalty for Texas Prison Horses Stirs Controversy by Between February 2003 and November 2004, the Texas prison system sold 53 horses to the Dallas Crown slaughterhouse in Kaufmann, Texas, for processing into meat for human consumption. This violates § 149.003 of the Texas Agriculture Code. The first offense is …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Ex-Prisoners Barred From Nursing in Texas by by Matthew T. Clarke Recently, the Dallas Morning News (DMN) generated articles decrying the presence of convicted drug and sex offenders in the nursing profession. Texas, like many states, has statutes denying ex-prisoners licensing in many state-licensed professions. In some professions, being convicted …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Court May Infer Deliberate Indifference from Obviousness of Risk by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's grant of summary judgment to prison officials in a prisoner's claim that officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety when they had him strip insulation from a live 480-volt wire …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Retaliation Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's retaliation claim. On January 17, 2003, Illinois prisoner Robert Hoskins worked in the Dixon Correctional Center (Dixon) cafeteria when Food Services Supervisor Connie Lenear called him a …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Maryland Prisons MisCalculate Half of All Prisoner Release Dates by by David M. Reutter Up to one half of all Maryland prisoners early release dates at two prisons were erroneous, concluded a report by the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits. The report declined to identify the two prisons it audited, …
Publication • November 4, 2005
Staff Safety Evaluation, California State Prison Solano, 2005 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION Corrections Standards Authority G.'.).~:.:. 600 Bercut Drive. 8urte A : ~ .~~..:t.-::: ~ .. Sacramento, California 95814 . www.csa.ca.gov .~. ..= ~ .' d II II II II II II -II II TABLE OF CONTENTS i'\ …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Modern Slavery In North Carolina: Another Peculiar Institution by by Michael Rigby Jean Valjean went to prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven hungry children. It was only the first of many injustices the protagonist in Victor Hugo's biting social commentary, Les Miserables, would endure. …
Article • October 15, 2005
California Auditor: Prison Industries Loses Money and Fails to Demonstrate Rehabilitative Success by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Prison Industry Authority (PIA) loses money in 20 of 28 enterprises it operates in CDCR prisons, provides rehabilitative work for a declining number of prisoners in …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury by On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at …
Kentucky State Auditor Blasts Prison Industries After $377K in Undeposited Payments Found in Manager’s Desk by by Matthew T. Clarke It is hard to imagine the surprise of Kentucky Correctional Industries (KCI) employees when they discovered $377,751.86 in undeposited payments in a KCI manager’s desk in April, 2004. As a …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury by by Michael Rigby On February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center. Plaintiff Brian Dodd, …
Brief • July 12, 2005
Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., Decision, inmate work injury, 2005 [Cite as Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., 2005-Ohio-3958.] IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF OHIO www.cco.state.oh.us DAVID PETTIT, et al. : Plaintiffs : v. : CASE NO. 2003-11798 Judge Fred J. Shoemaker DECISION DEPARTMENT …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Georgia Sheriffs Illegally Profit From Captive Workforce by by Michael Rigby The great thing about being a county's top lawman is having a cadre of free labor for your own personal use. Or so many Georgia sheriffs think. Although it is a felony under state law to use prisoner labor …
Failure to Protect from HIV-Positive Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights action filed by three prisoners at South Dakota's Mike Durfee State Prison. The prisoners alleged that prison officials …
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