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Two Week Work Stoppage, Lockdown Over At Holman Prison
May 15, 2016
The Alabama Department of Corrections reported that a two-week lockdown at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore is over.
The lockdown was lifted on Thursday when inmates who were participating in a work stoppage there reported to work.
Approximately 30 inmates at Holman worked kitchen detail for each meal shift; 35 inmates reported to the facility’s tag plant that produces the state license plates; and 23 inmates worked in the sewing plant that manufactures bed linens for state prisons. The tag plant remained operational during the work stoppage by inmates from the Atmore Community Work Center. The tag and sewing plant are part of the Alabama Correctional Industries (ACI).
Inmates who work in the Alabama Correctional Industries are paid 25 to 75 cents-an-hour for their work. Inmates assigned to kitchen detail, the recycling plant, and laundry services are not compensated.
Prison officials said Alabama Correctional Industries is primarily a work-training program for inmates that employs approximately 70 state employees and 500 inmates. ACI offers products, custom items such as furniture, and other services to state agencies.
During the work stoppage, staff provided basic services to inmates such as food and medical care while keeping the facilities secure.
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4 Responses to “Two Week Work Stoppage, Lockdown Over At Holman Prison”
It amazes me how society decides an inmate has all these rights and are being mistreated buy yet they get a bed and 3 warm meals a day. Extensive library hours to include their jail house lawyers. Yet, we need to treat them better. Softer on the discipline. See where the world is with the softer discipline. No respect. Where is the Justice for the victims and families if they are coddled? I just don’t get where society is going with this. And when I say society, I am referring to the ones that are guiding us through these nicer, gentler changes in D.O.C.
Re:Gwen. They may be humans. But they do not deserve any special treatment. They asked for what and where they are. Let them eat beans and cornbread they deserve nothing else ,sick of tax dollars supporting these people and all you human crying out for them ,,where’s the victims rights at?They need to go back to self supporting by growing their own foods like in the 60s.put their butts to work in fields
Hopefully they are treating these guys with respect. Inmates are human too.
Did they give the prisoners the lobster,steak, shrimp and golf corse they wanted?