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| Sex Offenders Won't Get Min. Wage |
| By whbl.com |
| Published: 04/01/2010 |
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (WTAQ) - Sex offenders who work while being confined in Wisconsin’s treatment centers are not entitled to get the minimum wage. That’s what an appeals court in Waukesha ruled Wednesday. Offenders at Sand Ridge in Mauston and the Wisconsin Resource Center in Oshkosh used to get $6.50 an hour for their work around the facilities. But in 2007, the corrections department slashed that pay to as little as $2 an hour, as part of the effort to balance the state budget. Lots of sex offenders cried foul. And Oshkosh residents Eric Fankhauser and Hung Nam Tram filed suit against the pay cut, saying they’ve done their prison time and they’re legally employees and not inmates. But the 2nd District Appellate Court disagreed on a 3-0 vote. The court said the Legislature changed the law in 1981 to allow sex offenders at treatment centers to be exempted from the minimum wage, just like prisoners. And Judge Daniel Anderson wrote that the patients get tax-funded food, housing, and medicines – and they don’t need the minimum wage to keep up their standard of living. Anderson also noted a court ruling in 2008 which said the patients don’t qualify for the federal minimum wage, either. Read More. |
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