Newsflash is an occasional item for quirky tidbits about unpaid labor and its consequences–regardless of whether the journalist writing the tidbit we quote gets paid or not.
Today, from an AP story about how a (grown up!) unpaid intern ended up embittered–and imprisoned:
A 40-year-old National Archives intern in Philadelphia stole 160 Civil War documents [from the Archive]. About half were sold on eBay. The documents included telegrams about the troops’ weaponry, the War Department’s announcement of Lincoln’s death sent to soldiers, and a letter from famed Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown Stuart.
A financially strapped Denning McTague was sentenced in the case to 15 months in prison in 2007. He had told a psychiatrist that he was angry that his internship was unpaid.
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