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Prison call centre plans revealed
“The Ministry of Justice is planning to set up call centres inside jails as part of its work programme for prisoners, according to documents promoting the scheme. Details of the plans have emerged...
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Investigation into inmate labor program finds lax practices
“A nearly two-month investigation by the Delaware Department of Correction into an inmate day-labor program in Sussex County has found that the near lack of documentation involving offenders who went...
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NH police investigate breach of prison computers
From the article: “New Hampshire state police are investigating how convicts at the state prison in Concord hacked into a sensitive Department of Corrections system and whether internal files had been...
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Serving thyme: Prison restaurant ‘The Clink’ opens to the public inside...
This program teaches inmates work skills and the pictures from the restaurant actually look amazing, but I am curious about two things: (1) how do they control the flow of contraband? and (2) how do...
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Prison labor costing Alabama, Mississippi jobs?
This article, regarding the closure of garment factories due to the US military changing its vendor to federal prison labor, raises again the hot topic of prison labor. The reality is that if inmates...
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Inmate labor flaws exposed
From the article: “State correction officials declared last month they found no “purposeful misconduct” when concluding their investigation of a prison work-release program that came under scrutiny...
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Inmates at “Old Max” build choppers with con flair, but no hype
This is a great article regarding inmates building choppers in the Colorado prison system. I am also a huge fan of Big House Choppers, a similar industry, in Nevada. Their motto? “We have the time to...
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Demanufacturing Wal-Mart: Profiting From Prison Labor
Despite the article’s negative spin on it, the fact that Wal-Mart utilizes inmate labor is actually one of the first good things I’ve heard about Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, it looks like it isn’t...
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Inmate Labor Under Fire
In Nevada, legislators are again confronting the argument that inmate labor is stealing jobs from the private sector. And in Kentucky, inmate labor apparently gives inmates access to cocaine. Not a...
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WA: Prison inmates learning aerospace work
From the article: “About a dozen inmates are enrolled in a program that will make them certified aerospace composite technicians. Their goal is a post-prison chance to land jobs at companies like...
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