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Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Prison Labor's Race to the Global Bottom by Zack Roth In the early 1990's, David Horwitz owned Kwalu, a Capetown, South Africa based company which manufactured generic tables and chairs for fast food chains, hotels, and hospitals. Furniture construction is a labor-intensive business, and though Kwalu's labor costs in Capetown …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable Under Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable Under Eighth Amendment by John E. Dannenberg 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 …
Kentucky Jury Awards $2,641 to Estate of Murdered Prisoner by In the January, 2003, issue of PLN we reported Flint Ex Rel Flint v. Kentucky Department of Corrections, 270 F.3d 340 (6th Cir. 2001) where the court held that Kentucky prison officials and employees of Correctional Industries were not entitled …
NY Prisoner Worker Awarded $90,000 in Accident by In 1995 William Terry was a prisoner at the Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility where he worked as a hay shredding machine operator on the prison dairy farm. While operating the shredding machine without safety shields, Terry's glove became caught in the machine …
No Qualified Immunity for Unsafe Working Conditions by A federal district court in New York held that a risk of future harm to a prisoner from dangerous chemicals at his prison job violates a clearly established right, from which prison officials are not immune. The court further held that the …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Washington Health and Safety Standards Apply to Prison Work Places by The Washington State Supreme Court has held that the Dept. of Corrections (DOC) must comply with electrical licensing and safety laws, but not competitive bidding and prevailing wage laws, when managing prisoner labor. The National Electrical Contractor Association (NECA) …
California PIA Chief, Folsom Mayor, Arrested by On January 27, 2000, Reggie "party meister" Drew, 57, was arrested in a room at the B-7-B Motel in a seedy industrial area of North Sacramento. Drew was charged with five felony and misdemeanor counts for soliciting an undercover policewoman for unspecified sex …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Washington Prison Slavery Runs Competitors Out of Business by Paul Wright PLN has extensively reported that, contrary to the claims of its supporters, prison slave labor has historically cost free world workers their jobs and eliminated businesses who are unable to compete with prison slave wages. Prison slave labor also …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
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Water Jet Companies Challenge Washington Slave Labor Laws by On August 31, 1999, the Washington Waterjet Workers Association (WWWA) filed suit in King county (Seattle) superior court in Washington, challenging the state Department of Corrections (DOC) practice of allowing private businesses to employ prisoner labor. The defendants are Howard Yarbrough, …
Georgia Prisoner Wins $60,000 Retaliation Verdict by On September 30, 1999, U.S. district court judge Orinda Evans awarded Georgia state prisoner Ray Yelverton $60,000 in compensatory and punitive damages in a retaliation suit against prison officials. Yelverton was convicted of child molestation charges in 1990. He was imprisoned at the …
Arizona Incarceration Cost Setoff Law Upheld by The Arizona Court of Appeals held that, as applied, the state's incarceration cost setoff law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the anti-abrogation provisions of the Arizona Constitution. A jury awarded $15,000 to Felix Duarte and $1,500 …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
State Police Investigate Illinois Prison Industry by According to a highly critical report by the Illinois Auditor General's office released April 21, 1999, a tire recycling industry at the Downstate Lincoln Corr. Center provided up to $325,000 in free recycling services to private businesses over a 2-year period. It is …
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti (Review) by Paul Wright Verso, 290 pages Review by Paul Wright The government is by no means a neutral agent dedicated to the welfare of all its citizens. Instead, it stands first and foremost to protect the …
Arizona Can't Seize All Prison Labor Back Wages by The Arizona court of appeals held that the state of Arizona can only seize thirty percent of a successful prisoner litigants back wages award. In 1983 and 1984 Richard Ford, an Arizona state prisoner, worked for Cutter Industries, a private company …
Illinois Prison Home to Illegal Tire Dump by What do you do with 17,000 tons of scrap truck tire casings? The administration of Illinois's Logan Correctional Center has to figure that one out, says the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Lincoln Fire Department. The veritable mountain of tire casings, …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Ex-Welfare Workers in Georgia Replaced with Prison Slaves by To save money, a South Georgia recycling plant fired 50 trash sorters, including 35 who had taken jobs to get off welfare, and replaced them with prison slave labor. The former welfare clients had been earning $5.20/ hour before they were …
Media Interview Protected Free Speech by A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the transfer of a prisoner for his participation in a pre-authorized media interview and his subsequent correspondence with the newspaper reporter violated the prisoner's constitutional rights. Prison officials were denied qualified immunity and the prisoner was …
A Foul Trend Emerges by Tara Herivel An 1996, the Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) fined McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) over $13,000 for health and safety violations. L & I investigator Jeff Spann unearthed a pattern of inadequate training for health care staff, use of faulty medical equipment, …
Frivolous Qualified Immunity Appeals Warrant Sanctions by The court of appeals for the Sixth Circuit that it lacked jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from an order denying qualified immunity because the prison medical personnel defendants would not concede to view the facts in a light most favorable to the prisoner. …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Retaliation Suit States Claim by Afederal district court in Illinois held that a jail prisoner had stated a claim upon which relief could be granted in his lawsuit alleging retaliation. David Lewis was a prisoner in the Cook county (Chicago) jail in Illinois where he worked as a law library …
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