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New Jersey's latest unemployment rate is still a far cry from the 15.4% unemployment seen in May 2020 during the COVID-19 business closures, which itself was New Jersey's highest unemployment rate ...
Paid prison labour is the participation of convicted prisoners in either voluntary or mandatory paid work programs. While in prison, inmates are expected to work in areas such as industry, institutional maintenance, service tasks and agriculture. [ 1] The most common work assignments contribute to facility support, such as food service ...
New Jersey’s beleaguered unemployment system has made strides since the jobless rate soared to its highest level in 40 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a report released Wednesday found ...
In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. [ 1] Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The industry underwent many transitions throughout the late 19th and early and mid 20th centuries.
New data from the Department of Labor showed nearly 1.84 million claims were filed in the week ending June 22, up from 1.82 million the week prior. Meanwhile, the 4-week moving average of weekly ...
Central Virginia Correctional Unit #13 Chesterfield: 250 Coffeewood Correctional Center: Mitchells: 1,193 Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 Greenville: 150 Culpeper Correctional Facility for Women Culpeper: Closed as of 2014 [2] Deep Meadow Correctional Center Powhatan County: 840 Deerfield Correctional Center: Capron: 1,069 Dillwyn ...
In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [ 12][ 13] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [ 9] the overall incarceration rate in the US was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [ 12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [ 14] England ...
In 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...