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Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
California Slave Labor Loses Money by In California there is a prisoner work program that is supposed to save taxpayers up to $50 million a year. However, a new study has shown that taxpayers are shelling out $180,000 annually. The program generates about $340,000 a year for the state, but …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Should Prisoners Have the Right to Strike? Some Union Leaders Say "Yes!" by Phil Wilayto Should Prisoners Have the Right to Strike? Some Union Leaders Say "Yes!" by Phil Wilayto On Feb. 17, 1997, the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO opened its annual mid-winter meeting in Los Angeles. As the …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
California PIA Employees Lose Minimum Wage Suit by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit by California Prison Industrial Authority (PIA) prisoners who filed suit claiming they were entitled to the minimum wage under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Washington Union Sues over Prison Slave Labor by On August 29, 1996, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) local 970 filed suit in Pierce County (Tacoma) superior court over the use of prison labor to expand the Cedar Creek Correctional Center. The prisoners are paid between 50¢ and $1.40 an …
No Service on US Required for Bivens Claim in Work Injury Suit by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that plaintiffs suing federal officials solely in their individual capacities do not need to serve the complaint on the United States. John Vaccaro is a federal prisoner with …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Making Slave Labor Fly: Boeing Goes to Prison by Paul Wright With the repeal of welfare, some political opportunists and right-wing pundits are turning their sights on questions of law and order in general and prison "reform" in particular. They are starting to push Congress to impose the same solution …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
New Plantation by Bill Dunne In the new world order, the ideological concerns that previously persuaded the capitalist ruling class to purchase social and labor peace with a comparatively generous social contract and high living standards no longer hold sway. The US ruling class will need to take drastic measures …
County Liable for Trustee's Work; No Remedy for Illegal Detention by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a county was properly liable where it did not reimburse a jail detainee for work he performed on public property. The court also held that a pretrial detainee's work …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Stunning Revelations by Adrian Lomax Recently Governor Thompson signed into law a bill permitting prisoner chain gangs in Wisconsin. In a high-tech twist on the old Southern chain gangs, Thompson's program includes requiring prisoners to wear electrical stun belts in addition to being chained at the ankle. When activated, the …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Filed under: Work, Chain Gangs
New Improved Chain Gang by F.B. Just so you will know, contrary to many published reports nationwide, the chain gang HAS NOT been abolished in Alabama. They have simply stopped chaining the prisoners on the chain gang in groups of five. These prisoners are still individually chained for no other …
Circus is in Town by by Mr. Wolf Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, 'The degree of a civilization in society can be judged by entering its prisons and jails." By the events which unfolded in Phoenix, Arizona during September, 1996, it is no doubt evident now to the world at …
Second Circuit Rejects Prison FLSA Claim, Modifies Standard by [Editor's Note: The following article is the first of a three part series on prison slave labor. The other two articles will appear in the next two issues of PLN.] The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the …
Brief • January 28, 1997
Filed under: Chain Gangs
Austin v. James, AL, Recommendation, Chain Gangs, 1997 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION MICHAEL A. AUSTIN, RICHARD ELLIOT, OGIE HAYES, CHARLES GUESS, WARREN LEATHERWOOD, and KERVIN GOODWIN, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, FILE JAN 2 …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Labor and Private Profit by Adrian Lomax Wall Street wheeler-dealer Irwin Jacobs, known as "Irv the Liquidator" for his leveraged-buyout exploits in the 1980s, is always looking to turn a profit. One of his current business ventures refurbishes and repackages items that customers have returned to retail stores. When …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
UNICOR Hogs Body Armor Market by Dan Pens In the July '96 issue of PLN we published "Furniture Manufacturers Threatened by UNICOR," an article about how Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI, which uses the trade name UNICOR), dramatically expanded its "market share" of furniture sold to the military and government …
No FLSA Protection for Work Release Prisoners by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that neither the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) nor Louisiana law offered relief to a work release prisoner challenging a contractual provision requiring he contribute ten percent of his net earnings to …
Alleged Work Refusal Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that a district court erred when it disregarded a prisoner plaintiff's affidavit that he had not refused a work assignment. The court also declined to decide whether state prisoners have a federal liberty interest when …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Texas Prisoners Build Their Own Cages by Texas increased its prison population over the past ten years from 37,000 to a soon-to-be 145,000. At one point, the lack of prison space kept a backlog of 35,000 state prisoners in county jails. All told, the state paid more than $650 million …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Asbestos Exposure Violates Eighth Amendment by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that exposing prisoners to asbestos violates the eighth amendment. Clarence Wallis is an Oregon state prisoner assigned to a cleanup crew. His work detail was ordered to remove asbestos hanging off pipes, without any type …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Job Denial Based on HIV Status May Violate ADA by A federal district court in Florida held that a jail's denial of trustee status to an HIV+ prisoner would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 42 U.S.C. 12131. Johnnie Dean was held in the St. Lucie County jail when …
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