Word: prisoners
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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent yesterday morning on the steps of the State House protesting a trio of bills to expand prison labor...
...protest was scheduled to coincide with the public hearing for Senate Bill 1092 and House Bills 139 and 127. The bills would allow private companies to utilize prison labor through a "Massachusetts Prison Industry Enhancement Program...
Levin also noted that the program "creates a profit incentive for prison building and prisoner incarceration...
...saboteurs are especially busy in today's global, high-tech economy, where the most prized assets can be stored on a disk and surveillance equipment can fit on a shirt button. To help slow them down, Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which carries a long prison term for intellectual-property theft. The good guys haven't had much luck yet, though not for lack of effort. The FBI has nearly tripled its investigations into corporate espionage in the past year. But in 1997 at least $25 billion in intellectual property was stolen from U.S. corporations...
...doesn't faze convict-journalist WILBERT RIDEAU that he won't be able to attend this year's Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, The Farm: Angola, USA, is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. "One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective," says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. "The award would be nice, but it won't change...