A
high-ranking Federal Bureau of Prisons official used incarcerated people
from a Texas prison to provide labor for his church to finish a
landscaping project it couldn’t afford. On two occasions last year, six
men incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)
Seagoville worked on the church for meager wages in what some say is a
clear-cut case of prison labor exploitation.
Two Bureau
of Prisons (BOP) employees speaking the condition of anonymity because
they are not authorized to speak to the media told The Appeal
about the arrangement between John Caraway, who is the BOP’s South
Central regional director, and the Life Church in Midlothian, Texas,
which is about 35 miles from the Seagoville prison.
Caraway is
in charge of 21 federal prisons in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, and Arkansas, which house roughly 29,000 people. “Every staff
member I talked to was pretty disgusted,” said one BOP employee. “On its
face we’ve always been told it’s abuse of inmate work or inmate
management to have them come out and do things personally. We have
community service projects to release them to the city and to the county
every once in a while but it’s not a personal thing, it’s not my soccer
field where I coach.”
Federal Prisons Official Used Prison Labor For Work On His Church - The Appeal
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