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Texas Prison Slaves No Savings for Direct Marketing Firm; Data Mining Results in $ 15 Million Settle
Loaded on July 15, 2006
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2006, page 40
Texas Prison Slaves No Savings for Direct Marketing Firm; Data Mining Results in $ 15 Million Settlement Fund
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor,
Crime/Demographics,
Databases,
Damages,
Settlements.
Location:
Texas.
by Michael Rigby
A class action lawsuit involving thousands of women who received threatening letters from prisoners employed to process data for a private company has settled for amounts ranging from $100 ...
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