×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2021, page 55
A class action lawsuit alleges that the Salvation Army’s adult drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and adult rehabilitation programs violate California law by failing to treat participants in those programs as employees.
The civil complaint was filed in a California Superior Court on May 7, 2021. Plaintiffs Justin Spillman, Devin ...
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- Environmental Indifference, by Anthony Moffa
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- $15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud, by Chuck Sharman
- Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO, by Edward Lyon
- Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA
- San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, by Keith Sanders
- Federal Jury Orders GEO Group to Pay $23 Million for Immigrant Detainee Slave Labor in Washington
- How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator, by Eli Hager
- BOP Trust Fund Accounts Reportedly Shield Prisoners from Payment Obligations, by Dale Chappell
- $53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved, by David Reutter
- Disenfranchisement the Old Fashioned Way, by Jayson Hawkins
- Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data, by Kevin Dayton
- HRDC Sues Lincoln County Wisconsin Jail over Censorship Practices
- Ninth Circuit: Pretrial Detainees Have Right to Direct-View Safety Checks, by David Reutter
- Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare, by Lauren Gill
- Eleventh Circuit: Preliminary Injunctions Have 90-Day Limit Under PLRA; Permanent Injunction Required to Extend Relief, by David Reutter
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Illegal Juvenile LWOP Sentence Undermined Validity of Later Conviction, by Douglas Ankney
- Eighth Circuit Rules District Court Must Use Federal Law for Admissibility of Expert Testimony, by Douglas Ankney
- Too Many In-Custody Deaths of BOP Prisoners are Unnecessary and Preventable, by Casey Bastian
- California Supreme Court: Prisoners Cannot Legally Possess Cannabis, by Casey Bastian
- Public Records Suit Filed Against Florida DOC To Obtain Formula Used To Compute Sentences
- History Professor Fired After Criticizing University’s Racist Past and Pro-Prison Present, by Keith Sanders
- Prison Visitors Have Fourth Amendment Right to Refuse Strip Search and Option to Leave Prison
- Unreliable Drug Tests Standard for Law Enforcement and Prisons, by Keith Sanders
- Massachusetts Prisons Pledge to End Solitary, by Jayson Hawkins
- Civilly Detained Sex Offender Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis Not a Prisoner Under PLRA
- $405,794 Paid by California Prison System for Prisoner Killed by Aryan Brotherhood Cellmate
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Sanctions and Award of $118,458 in Attorney Fees Against DOC for Withholding Documents Requested Under Right-to-Know Law
- Texas County Jail Cited for Neglecting the Needs of a Pregnant Prisoner, by Keith Sanders
- $170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC, by Jayson Hawkins
- Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants
- Sherburne County, MN, Settles with HRDC for $98,000 Plus New Jail Publications Policy, by Chuck Sharman
- New Jersey Women’s Prison to Close After Latest Abuse Debacle, by Jayson Hawkins
- Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Black Mold in Showers, Lack of Cleaning Supplies, by Matthew Clarke
- ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass, by Edward Lyon
- Michigan Prisoner’s Corizon Suit Dismissed Due to “Morass of Irrelevancies”, by David Reutter
- Seven Ohio Guards Fired After Killing Prisoner, No Criminal Charges
- Third Circuit: Gratuitous Use of Force on Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense, by David Reutter
- Delaware Mother Jailed for Not Paying $177 in Fines, Dies in Custody, Nurse Convicted, by Jayson Hawkins
- Forty-One Oregon Prisoner Firefighters have Sentences Commuted
- News in Brief
More from these topics:
- $11.6 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Debit Release Card Case in Washington; California Victory Remanded, April 1, 2024. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, HRDC Litigation.
- Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery, April 1, 2024. Prison Labor, Disciplinary Hearings.
- Seventh Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Seized $10,000, March 1, 2024. Disciplinary Hearings, Hearing Officers, Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
- Alabama Prisons Facing Third Class-Action Lawsuit, March 1, 2024. Parole Board Misconduct, Prison Labor, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Assaults on Staff.
- First Circuit Lets BOP Take Prisoner’s Entire $10,956.36 Trust Account Balance for Restitution, Feb. 1, 2024. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Restitution, Trust Accounts.
- Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Against Kitchen Supervisor for Scalding From Spilled Hot Water, Jan. 1, 2024. Prison Labor, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Food, Water, Sanitation.
- After Winning $15,000 Settlement, California Trans Prisoner Forces CDCR to Replace Missing Trust Account Deposits, Dec. 1, 2023. Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Grievances, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Transgender.
- When Prison Workers Are Exploited for Cheap Sheets, Nov. 15, 2023. Prison Labor.
- Minnesota Makes All Calls Free in Prisons and Jails, Nov. 15, 2023. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Family, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
- After Ninth Circuit Refuses to Compel Arbitration, National Class Certified in HRDC’s Challenge to Jail and Prison Debit Card Fees, Oct. 15, 2023. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Class Actions, HRDC Litigation.