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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers by Eric Seligman, Brian Nam-Sonenstein by Eric Seligman and Brian Nam-Sonenstein One of the ways that mass incarceration traps people in poverty is by raising the stakes of unemployment for all workers, creating immense obstacles to organizing for better terms of employment. Rather than alleviate …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso At the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 22, 2024, a Louisiana prisoner defeated a claim of qualified immunity …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Nearly 800 California Prisoners Battle Huge Los Angeles Wildfires—for About $1 an Hour by As the Santa Ana winds fanned an unprecedented number of wildfires that destroyed or damaged nearly 10,000 Los Angeles homes by January 10, 2025, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said that firefighting crews …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit: Baltimore County Prisoners May Qualify as Employees under FLSA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified the standards to determine whether Baltimore County prisoners are considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional by Quietly, the Second Senate of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court made history on June 20, 2023, in a ruling that found laws capping compensation that prisoners receive for work in two German states violate the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Suspended Colorado Work Release Program Exposes Companies’ Reliance on Low-Wage Labor by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Human resources manager Jeanette Carmack called them “really, really good guys”: nine prisoners from the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) who filled positions in the Public Works and Parks, Recreation and Golf departments …
Brief • March 8, 2023
Alvear v. The Salvation Army, GA, Opinion and Order, Fair Labor, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-00979-SEG Document 102 Filed 03/08/23 Page 1 of 34 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION RAYMON ALVEAR, JR., ROBERT MASSEY, DAVID STOUGH, and ANDREW KEIGANS, on behalf of themselves and all other similar …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Supreme Court Passes on Case of New York Sex Offender Imprisoned Past Release Date for Lack of Compliant Housing by Chuck Sharman, Jory Smith by Jory Smith and Chuck Sharman On February 22, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal by …
$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 • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Idaho Supreme Court Holds Prisoners Have No Right to Paid or Unpaid Employment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2020, the Idaho Supreme Court held that state prisoners have no right to paid or unpaid employment despite a state law stating that the board of correction “shall …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Former Prisoners Making Less Than Minimum Wage Working for Nonprofit Doe Fund by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Former prisoners who have turned to the nonprofit organization The Doe Fund in New York City for work and job training have found themselves making less than minimum wage, once the Doe …
Article • October 5, 2020
192,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Seeking Pay for Uncompensated Work from Corizon by A $192,368 settlement was reached in a lawsuit alleging Corizon Health deducted meal break times from employee pay even when the employee worked through the break. The lawsuit was filed as a class action on November 11, 2012. …
Compelling Labor and Chilling Dissent: Creative Resistance to Coercive Uses of Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers, Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, Forthcoming Compelling Labor and Chilling Dissent: Creative Resistance to Coercive Uses of Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers Savannah Kumar1 INTRODUCTION Solitary …
Brief • November 21, 2019
Woods v. Cenikor Foundation, TX , Class Action Complaint, Withholding Wages, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-04569 Document 1 Filed on 11/21/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION ANTHONY WOODS, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated vs. PLAINTIFFS …
Potter v. Cenikor Foundation, LA, Amended Class Action Complaint, Withholding Wages, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-03031 Document 27 Filed on 06/20/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JOHN POTTER, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated CASE NO.: 3:19-cv-00294-BAJ-RLB VERSUS CENIKOR FOUNDATION, …
Williams v. Cenikor Foundation, Class Action Complaint, Withholding Wages, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-02828 Document 1 Filed on 05/22/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION SHELBY LEE WILLIAMS and RANDY EDWARD POUNCY, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, …