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'Hendren Plastics'

8th Circuit overturns judgment against Hendren's company

A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court reversed a $1.1 million dollar judgment against state Sen. Jim Hendren's (I-Sulphur Springs) plastics company's use of unpaid labor in Gravette.
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Judge rules against Hendren Plastics in suit over unpaid laborers

Federal Judge Timothy Brooks Friday evening granted a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging state minimum wage law violations in Hendren Plastics' use of unpaid labor at its plastics factory in Gravette.
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Senator's company cited in Home Depot shareholder proposal

The past use of unpaid labor by an Arkansas plastics company has become an issue before the stockholders of the national Home Depot chain.

Revealed: More 'rehabilitation' work camps

Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, continues to uncover shocking  abuses in the name of criminal justice reform.
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Senator's company files defamation lawsuit over reporting on unpaid labor complaints

Sen. Jim Hendren's company has filed a defamation lawsuit against a lawyer, Timothy Steadman, who has brought one of two lawsuits naming the company as a defendant over an arrangement in which drug court defendants work without pay for private businesses including Hendren Plastics.

Benton County justice: Judge defends challenged unpaid work for rehabilitation

40/29 TV has done some in-depth reporting on the sentencing of drug court defendants to unpaid jobs at Simmons Foods and Hendren Plastics, a long-running practice that is now the subject of multiple lawsuits.
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Jim Hendren ends arrangement for drug court labor

The Associated Press is reporting that Sen. Jim Hendren's plastics company has terminated an arrangement with a nonprofit agency that supplied him workers in a drug court program where payments went to the nonprofit, not the workers.

New reporting on use of drug court defendants at senator's manufacturing company

Reveal, the website of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has expanded its reporting on the use of drug court defendants as unpaid laborers at the plastics manufacturing company headed by Sen. Jim Hendren, the Republican majority leader, nephew of the governor and one of the most influential members of the legislature.
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New lawsuit on unpaid work for drug court defendants adds senator's firm

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported today a third lawsuit contesting the arrangement by which drug court defendants are sentenced to work unpaid , with pay going to nonprofit agencies. The lawsuit again names the Simmons poultry corporation as an employer of the workers, but also adds Hendren Plastics, headed by a state senator.
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