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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Hyundai Parts Supplier Stops Using Prison Slave Labor in Alabama by According to a New York Times report on December 18, 2024, Ju-Young Manufacturing America, Inc., a company that makes car parts for Hyundai, announced it was ending its arrangement with the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) to use prisoner …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
South Carolina Prisoners Granted Class-Action Status in Suit Over Low Wages in Prison Industries Jobs by Douglas Ankney On September 18, 2024, four men, all current or former prisoners incarcerated within the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC), sued the agency and Director Bryan P. Stirling in …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Work Release
Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles by Alabama is notoriously stingy with parole grants to eligible prisoners, but it also leaves many to languish in work-release centers, where the unemployment rate in January 2024 hit 26%—far above the state’s overall rate of just 2.9% Though numbering just 350 …
$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 27, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied state prison officials’ motion for new trial. That left standing a jury verdict finding that …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Exceptional Punishments by Kate Weisburd by Kate Weisburd No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison. The same scene unfolds in criminal courtrooms across the country every day. After someone has been found guilty by a jury or pled guilty, a …
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release by As reported by The Appeal on September 25, 2023, a Georgia prisoner with Hepatitis C was forced to pass up placement in a work-release program in order to maintain his medical care, which was not available to him …
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 • April 26, 2022
Filed under: Work Release
Sparks v. Mills, ME, Settlement Agreement, Jobless Benefits, 2022 Case 2:20-cv-00190-LEW Document 47-1 Filed 04/26/22 Page 1 of 22 PageID #: 317 Exhibit 1 Settlement Agreement and Release Subject to Court approval, Representative Plaintiff Marc Sparks, individually, and on behalf of a class of other persons, and Defendants Janet Mills, …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Work Release, Prison Labor
Wildfires Threaten Prisoners in West, While New California Law Helps Prisoner-Firefighters to Continue Work After Release by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell It used to be that specially trained prisoners who worked on the front lines fighting wildfires couldn’t continue to work as firefighters after their release. Thanks to a …
Brief • June 2, 2020
Filed under: Work Release
Sparks v. Mills, ME, Complaint, Jobless Benefits, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00190-LEW Document 1 Filed 06/02/20 Page 1 of 19 PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE MARC SPARKS, on behalf of himself and those similarly situated Plaintiffs v. JANET MILLS, in her official capacity …
Manus v. Erie County, PA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2018 Case Case1:18-cv-00202-SPB 1:05-mc-02025 Document Document 1011 Filed Filed07/20/18 07/20/18 Page Page11ofof17 17 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BRYANNA MANUS and AMANDA TUCHOLSKI, as CO-ADMINISTRATORS of the ESTATE of FELIX L. MANUS, Plaintiffs​, v. ERIE COUNTY, JOSHUA …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Tennessee Sheriff Offered “Church Release” to Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Maury County, Tennessee Sheriff Bucky Rowland was elected to office in 2014 on a platform that promoted prisoner rehabilitation. While it is not unusual for an elected official to give lip service to the concept of rehabilitating …
Report Finds Alabama Prisons Are Deliberately Indifferent to Prisoner’s Medical Needs by David Reutter by David Reutter Alabama prisoners live in “human warehouses” where “systemic indifference discrimination and dangerous – even life-threatening – conditions are the norm.” That factual finding was drawn in a 2014 report that followed an investigation …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Work Release Programs Reduce Recidivism in Louisiana – At a Cost by The Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) Transitional Work Program has been having a positive effect on reducing recidivism in Louisiana, though it has not been without its faults and criticisms. A recent audit of the program called for …
Publication • December 30, 2016
Class V Restitution, Work Release, and Community Supervision or Custody Master Agreement, WA DOC and City of Seattle, 2015
Community Cages - Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration, AFSC, 2016 COMMUNITY CAGES: Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration e h t f o t r a P l Treatment Indusetriax Compl 2tic #no series AUGUST 2016 COMMUNITY CAGES: Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration AUGUST 2016 …
Wisconsin Court Orders Dismissal of Jail Negligence Suit by Lonnie Burton On October 16, 2014, District IV of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and granted summary judgment in favor of defendants in a case brought by the estate of a prisoner who overdosed while at the …
Article • November 1, 2016
Filed under: Work Release, Escapes
Florida Supreme Court: Unauthorized Absence from Work is 'Escape from Custody' for Work Release Prisoner by Lonnie Burton In a decision handed down on September 3, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the escape conviction of a man who left his work site without permission while he was on work …
United Kingdom: Queen Elizabeth Unveils Judicial and Prison Reform Shakeup by On May 18, 2016, Queen Elizabeth announced a plan – touted as the “biggest shakeup” in criminal justice reform since Victorian times – that will provide more self-governance to UK prisons and allow prisoners greater access to technology. The …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Prisoners in Chicago Learn Skills, Improve Neighborhoods by Demolishing Vacant Homes by Gary Hunter Cook County, Illinois has become the first county in the nation to employ a new, double-edged strategy to attack neighborhood blight and train jail prisoners for productive employment following their release, by using prisoner labor to …
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