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“The Worst Kind of Work” Thai Prisoners Forced into Labor, Often Without Pay
Loaded on July 15, 2022
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2022, page 36
Filed under:
Prison Labor.
Location:
Thailand.
by Ed Lyon
In February 2022, watchdog groups called for a U.S. ban on imports of fishing nets from Thailand, after a December 2021 report by Thomson Reuters Foundation that found some of that country’s 280,000 prisoners are being forced to make the nets by hand under threat of punishment ...
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- Seventh Circuit Reiterates That Threats and Withholding Grievance Forms Render Administrative Remedies Unavailable to Prisoner, by Mark Wilson
- Federal Courts Order Seizure of Canteen Funds for Restitution Owed by High-Profile Prisoners, by David M. Reutter
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- Class of Juvenile Prisoners Certified in Suit Against Florida DOC, by Kevin Bliss
- Sixth Circuit Reinstates Suit of Kentucky Jail Detainee Impregnated by Guard, Finds Genuine Factual Dispute Over Consent, by Matthew Clarke
- Former Arizona Corrections Chief Indicted After Drunken Armed Standoff with Tempe Police, by Jo Ellen Nott
- The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration, by Paul Wright
- California Court Rules Bail Bond Companies Must Give Cosigners Financial Impact Notice, by David M. Reutter
- Virginia DOC’s Interference Hamstrings Local and Regional Jail Board, by Kevin Bliss
- Oregon Nurse Federally Charged With Raping Prisoners After State Prosecutors Declined to Prosecute, by Mark Wilson
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