Inmates say they worked for free for jail officials
Source: Associated Press
Inmates say they worked for free for jail officials
Travis Loller, Associated Press
Updated 3:35 pm, Sunday, August 16, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Former inmates at a privately run Nashville jail say they worked without pay building bean-bag "cornhole" games, plaques shaped like footballs, birdhouses and dog beds so that officials could sell them through their personal business at a flea market.
Inmates can legally be required to work without pay, in some circumstances, but jail employees are not supposed to profit from their labor. But former inmates Larry Stephney and Charles Brew say that is what happened with Stand Firm Designs, run by two jail employees and one former employee, according to their business card.
Although the company website says Stand Firm Designs is "composed of retired contractors," Stephney and Brew said they produced some of the company's products while working without pay in the jail's woodshop under fear of retaliation.
Those products were sold at the Nashville Flea Market and through the website, they said. Plaques went for $10 to $20 and bean-bag toss games commonly called cornhole were $50, they said.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Inmates-say-they-worked-for-free-for-jail-6447379.php
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)NBachers
(17,103 posts)in town. The inmates were always wondering why they were eating shitty cuts and gristle when we were raising and processing our own beef. The cops working the program were making off with the good stuff.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Despicable
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)should be paid the federal minimum wage for 'work'.
Not the 20 cents an hour or the $1 a day todays prisoners are legally paid in 'for profit' prisons and 'for profit' detention camps for 'un papered' persons.
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)There's NO excuse to introduce the profit motive into corrections.
Sunlei
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