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- Government Buys Spire Photovoltaic Module Production Facility
- The U.S. Federal Prison company, Unicor, purchased from Spire a complete photovoltaic module factory for about $54 million. BusinessWire carries the press release stating that the facility will be installed at the Federal Prison in Otisville, NY. Inmates will produce the modules for sale to other Federal...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Prison Industry Continues Its Shakeup
- Over the last few decades an industry has developed around private contractors managing prisons for states and localities. The argument for contracting this out is as in most cases to save money. There is also an industry related to the Federal and State prison systems in that they...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
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- Competition eyed for prison industry: Minimum wage touted for convicts.(Nation)
- Federal Prison Industries will have to compete with the private sector and pay inmates the minimum wage if new legislation before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime is approved. The subcommittee convened hearings on the Prison Industries Reform Act of 1999 yesterday....
- Research articles 1999-08-06
- Prison Labor As A Money Making Enterprise
- Both the Federal Government and some states use the readily available labor force of people in their prison systems to do contract work. In fact for the U.S. government contracts the Federal Prison Industry FPI company has priority for contracts. Often they can undercut a normal company as...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Colorado to Order More License Plates from Canon City, Colo., Prison Industry.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Nov. 15--DENVER--Colorado counties are running out of license plates, prompting state officials to request emergency funding to order more from prison industries in Canon City. Nov. 15--DENVER--Colorado counties are running out of license plates, prompting state officials to request emergency funding to order ...
- Research articles 2000-11-16
- Former AHERF CEO sentenced to prison - Industry Scan: In the News - Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation - Brief Article
- Concluding a criminal case that lasted two years, the former CEO of the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation AHERF, Sherif Abdelhak, was sentenced to a prison term of up to 23 months for misusing charitable endowments to prop up the failing healthcare system. Abdelhak, 56, now living in Louisville,...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Michigan Furniture Makers Lose Business to Prison Products, Senator Says. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- DETROIT--Jul. 21--Michigan's struggling office furniture makers are losing contracts and jobs to a growing throng of federal prisoners who make furniture and other products for the government, U.S. Sen. Donald Riegle contends. On the eve of a national conference on prison industry issues, the Michigan...
- Research articles 1993-07-20
- U.S. Manufacturers Say Prison Industry Cuts into Business.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- WASHINGTON--Nov. 10--Making license plates was one thing. But now that inmates at all 72 federal prisons are crafting everything from pajamas to paint brushes to missile parts, U.S. manufacturers complain they're stealing jobs and profits. Those...
- Research articles 1997-11-10
- Private Prisons: A Reliable American Growth Industry
- With the exception of the government's borrowing and spending activities, there are hardly any segments of the US economy that appear to have been inoculated against the recession which began in December 2007. There is one aspect of society however, that has continued to expand despite the difficult economic circumstances:...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Private Prison Operators Face Hard Times as Stocks Plunge.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16 -- Wackenhut Corrections Corp. has a lot more to worry about than the indictments Wednesday of 12 former employees of a jail it used to run in East Austin. The Florida-based company, the nation's second-largest private...
- Research articles 1999-12-17
- Fed prison work program needs its own watchdog.(Produces plastics and electronics and competes w/ private industry)(Brief Article)
- Most processors may not know it, but one of their biggest competitors just might be the federal government. Federal Prison Industries Inc., operating under the trade name Unicor, generated nearly $134 million in sales under its plastics and electr Most processors may not...
- Research articles 2002-03-04
- Former Missouri state Rep. Cooper gets 15-month prison term
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry.
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Top Samsung, Daewoo execs guilty - Samsung Chmn Lee Kun Hee and Daewoo Chmn Kim Woo Choong sentenced to prison terms - Industry Legal Issue
- Seoul, South Korea--In what some called a surprisingly harsh conclusion to South Korea's massive corruption trials, several of the country's top business and political figures--including the chairmen of the Samsung and Daewoo groups--last week were found guilty of bribing former presidents and given prison terms.
- Research articles 1996-09-02
- Former Buca officers to plead guilty to fraud: ex-chairman Micatrotto, 2 others could face prison terms of up to 21 months
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Just as an unsavory era of corporate-governance scandals appeared to be ending with felony convictions in the iconic Enron Corp. case, the restaurant industry was roiled this month by prospects of prison terms for foodservice executives accused of looting a national chain. Joseph P. Micatrotto, former chairman...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- Former Missouri lawmaker sentenced to prison
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry. Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican, also faces two years of supervised release when he is freed in...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Hanssen Gets Life in Prison without Parole.
- By Lenny Savino, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--ALEXANDRIA, Va.--Ghostly thin and graying, convicted spy Robert Hanssen made his final appearance in court Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In...
- Research articles 2002-05-11
- New York Executive Sentenced to Prison for Role in Illegal Mutual-Fund Trading.
- By Tami Luhby, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 18--Two years after being lauded as a hero for rebuilding his Wall Street firm from the rubble of the World Trade Center disaster, James P. Connelly Jr. yesterday became the first...
- Research articles 2003-12-18
- Former Missouri lawmaker sentenced to prison
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry. Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican, also faces two years of supervised release when he is freed in 2009, and he...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- CSU, Chico Unveils Online Ordering Catalog for State Prisons
- CHICO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 20, 1998--California State University, Chico unveiled today, July 20, a new World Wide Web page that provides California prisons with the ability to market products online.Working with the California Prison Industry Authority PIA, CSU, Chico created an "electronic catalog" that showcases prison-made products ranging from hand-made furniture...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
- Ex-media baron Conrad Black gets 6 1/2-year prison sentence
- CHICAGO -- Former newspaper mogul Conrad Black was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison, far less than sought by prosecutors, for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger media empire out of $6 million. "Mr. Black, you have violated your duty to Hollinger International shareholders," U.S. District Judge...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
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