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California sent about $400 million in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments to state prisoners, a state official said Tuesday, nearly triple the amount disclosed last week and a number that ...
Hundreds of Californians released from prisons could receive direct cash payments of $2,400 — along with counseling, job search assistance and other support — under a first-in-the-nation ...
A California woman in state prison for murder admits she ran a sprawling scam using stolen identities to secure emergency pandemic unemployment benefits.
Work release programs have the ability to have a positive impact on inmates and their ability to gain employment after they are released. Also, inmates who participate in work release programs are able to acquire jobs nearly twice as fast when compared to inmates who do not participate.
The benefits of paid labour for inmates may include heightened incentives for good behaviour, productivity and post-release skill development, in addition to improved emotional wellbeing. [4] Prison institutions are benefited by minimised inmate idleness and potential for security issues, the completion of necessary maintenance tasks and ...
In the United States, pay-to-stay is the practice of charging prisoners for their accommodation in jails.The practice is controversial and can result in large debts being accumulated by prisoners who are then unable to repay the debt following their release, preventing them from successfully reintegrating in society once released.
California prison officials have proposed doubling wages for incarcerated workers, from a minimum of 8 cents an hour to a minimum of 16 cents an hour.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.