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Injury Required to Enforce Grand Jury Law by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that while individuals can seek judicial enforcement of a law requiring that evidence be presented to a grand jury, the party seeking enforcement must allege injury in order to have standing. …
Former Texas Prison Chief Indicted by The former head of the Texas prison system has been indicted on six counts of federal bribery, conspiracy, fraud and money-laundering charges stemming from his role in a shady multi-million dollar contract to purchase a soy-based meat substitute to feed Texas prisoners. [The VitaPro …
California Whistleblowers Silenced, Punished by Two California prisoners, suspected of tipping reporters to a controversial story inside the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, were placed in administrative segregation (aka "the hole") and later transferred to other prisons. A San Diego television station reported in September, 1997, that workers …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Oregon's Prison Slavocracy by Dan Pens What I propose is, that as we embark on this massive prison construction program, we try a new approach -- convert our "warehouses" into factories with fences around them. To do that we must change our thinking and change the reactionary statutes that stand …
Louisiana DOC Defiance Rule Unconsitutional by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that the Louisiana DOC rule prohibiting "defiance" was facially invalid to the extent that it proscribes prisoners from threatening prison employees "with legal redress during a confrontation situation." The court also held that habeas corpus …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Jailhouse Travel Agents by Travel Wholesalers International, a travel agency based in Fairfax, Virginia, recruits workers in out-of-the-way places. The company employs 12 maximum-security prisoners at the Leath Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Greenwood, South Carolina. The prisoner-workers talk to clients over the phone, registering plane reservations and other …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Book Reviews by Paul Ortiz Profits First! Convict Labor in America Alex Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (London and New York: Verso, 1996). Matthew J. Mancini, One Dies Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South (Columbia S.C.: …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Profits First! Convict Labor in America, book: Worse than Slavery, D. Oshinsky by Paul Ortiz In Worse than Slavery, David Oshinsky writes about a world of forced toil with which we are more familiar: the great agricultural slave labor camp of Parchman Farm in the Mississippi Delta. Actually, Oshinsky's canvas …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Profits First! Convict Labor in America, book: Twice the Work of Free Labor (Book Review) by Paul Ortiz A. Lichtenstein The United States, in the throes of a vicious social war against the poor, is poised on the brink of dismantling New Deal legislative prohibitions such as the Ashurst-Sumners Act …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Jobs and Free World Unemployment by Adrian Lomax In May, 1996, the Fabry Glove & Mitten Company opened a production facility in Wisconsin's Green Bay Correctional Institution. The company hired 70 prisoners as laborers, later adding 30 more. The prisoners, who operate cutting and sewing machines, earn $5.25 per …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing
Texas Prison Labor Union by The Texas Prison Labor Union (TPLU) was established in 1995 by Texas prisoners and outside supporters. The state had just completed a $1.5 billion prison expansion program, and it now incarcerates close to 150,000 prisoners in a vast network of more than 100 prisons. One-hundred …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
WA County Launches Slave Labor Center by Construction crews were hard at work in February, l998, pounding nails, framing walls and stirring Spackle to remodel a building adjacent to the Whatcom County (WA) Courthouse. Pictured on the front page of the Bellingham Herald , they looked like any typical hard-working …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Unicor Steals Glove Business From Private Firms by The Genco Corporation of Tennessee is among 10 private firms that have contracts with the Defense Department to manufacture gloves for the U.S. military. Suppliers of military gloves are not a happy lot these days, though. Complaining loudly of unfair competition, the …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Slaves-R-Us Corporate Partners Wanted by [The following "Marketing Focus" fax from the Oregon Department of Corrections found its way to PLN , the full text of which is reproduced here.] Prime land, buildings, and labor available to nursery industry. Nursery products-related individuals and business interested in expanding operations through public-private …
Pretrial Detainees Not Covered by FLSA by Pretrial Detainees Not Covered By FLSA The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit held that pretrial detainees who perform services at the direction of jail officials for the benefit of the facility are not covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act …
Refusal to Waive Interest States Claim by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's claim that he was fired from his prison job when he refused to waive his right to interest accruing to his prison trust fund …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Fingers in the PIE by D.H. I thought you might be interested in the Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) program that was implemented at select Virginia prisons in 1997. The program allows the VDOC to contract outside of Virginia for prisoners to perform labor at minimum wage. I worked in the …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Slavery in South Carolina by Dan Pens What is the difference between a good slave and a bad slave? The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) knows: Good slaves "continue to work and stay out of trouble". Below is the full text of a memorandum addressed to the South Carolina …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Class Action Certification Clarified by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed as moot a jail detainee's lawsuit challenging conditions on a jail chain gang, before ruling on the plaintiff's motion for class certification. Timothy Wade filed a lawsuit seeking …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
Florida PRIDE Employees Denied Minimum Wages by James Quigley The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit affirmed summary judgment against Florida state prisoners who claimed entitlement to the federal minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219. The court held that the private, non …
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