Friday, March 22, 2019

Federal Prisons Official Used Prison Labor For Work On His Church - The Appeal


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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