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law360.com | Marco Poggio
By Marco Poggio | May 9, 2025, 7:01 PM EDT · Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element.
Incarcerated firefighters sent to battle the Hughes Fire in Castaic, California, in January. The essential work done by incarcerated firefighting crews casts into stark relief the ethical and legal quandaries posed by prison labor.
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Incarcerated firefighters sent to battle the Hughes Fire in Castaic, California, in January. The essential work done by incarcerated firefighting crews casts into stark relief the ethical and legal quandaries posed by prison labor. (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)
Andony Corleto was no stranger to fire. As a young child, he watched his neighbor's house burn down in South Los Angeles.
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Prisoners returning from a farm detail are escorted by a prison guard mounted on a horse that had been broken by the prisoners at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
In prisons, immigration detention centers and jails across the country, incarcerated people mop hallways, sew uniforms, file papers, raise crops, make furniture, bake bread and recycle trash.
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By Marco Poggio | April 28, 2025, 8:15 PM EDT · Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element.
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Five states, 17 cities and one county enacted laws between 2017 and 2024 guaranteeing tenants the right to legal counsel in eviction proceedings, but uneven implementation, chronic underfunding and persistent court barriers have sharply limited the programs' effectiveness, according to a new national study published Friday.
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By Marco Poggio | April 25, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT · Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element.
Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, where prisoner Matthew Raymond says he was assaulted by Lt. Troy Mitchell. (Photo by Corey Sipkin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
In September 2016, New York state prisoner Matthew Raymond was taken to a hospital to deal with seizures.
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law360.co.uk | Marco Poggio
Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, where prisoner Matthew Raymond says he was assaulted by Lt. Troy Mitchell. (Photo by Corey Sipkin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
In September 2016, New York state prisoner Matthew Raymond was taken to a hospital to deal with seizures. What followed left Raymond, then 28 years old, with lifelong trauma from what he described as a savage beating at the hands of correction officers.
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By Marco Poggio | April 25, 2025, 6:12 PM EDT · Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element. Under federal law, children with disabilities are entitled to receive special education services, and when these are inadequate, they can file complaints, which need to be addressed in a timely manner: within 75 days.
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law360.co.uk | Marco Poggio
Under federal law, children with disabilities are entitled to receive special education services, and when these are inadequate, they can file complaints, which need to be addressed in a timely manner: within 75 days.
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law360.com | Marco Poggio
-- North Carolina has asked the state's supreme court to review a trial court ruling finding racial bias tainted the jury selection at a Black man's capital murder trial, saying the man's case was rendered moot in December when the outgoing governor commuted his sentence, according to a petition filed Monday. The state argued in the petition that North Carolina Superior Court Judge Wayland J.
