Fast-food chains use Alabama prison inmates as slave labor, lawsuit alleges
By Amy Yurkanin | ayurkanin@al.com December 13, 2023 A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday said prisoners in Alabama have been denied parole and forced to work jobs at fast food restaurants as part of a “labor-trafficking scheme” that generates $450 million a year for the state,...
New York punished 2,000 prisoners over false positive drug tests
By Mysoon Khan, Associated Press November 30, 2023 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a report released Thursday. In hundreds of...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life Behind Bars: Crypto Tips and Paying With Fish
FTX founder learns that mackerel is a jailhouse currency and shares a dorm with other high-profile defendants Mackerel packets, known as ’macks,’ are a favored federal jailhouse currency after officials banned smoking. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; PHOTO: BILL...
Bureau Of Prisons Backtracking On First Step Act Law
By Walter Pavlo - Forbes November 22, 2023 It has been five years since President Donald Trump signed the sweeping criminal justice regulation called the First Step Act (FSA). FSA allowed many federal inmates to earn credits to reduce their sentence or to transition to home...
'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year prison sentence
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