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Prison Recycling  Each article annotation should include the following: · Full citation (s)

http://www.electronicstakeback.com/global-e-waste-dumping/prison-recycling/

· Statement of the key and sub-arguments made in the article.

UNICOR, a company that is wholly-owned by the federal Department of Justice, operates several businesses within the federal prison system, including electronics recycling in seven federal prisons.

 prisoners handling toxic components need ventilation, proper tools, and adequate protective gear, as do prison staff working in the area. UNICOR facilities repeatedly failed to provide proper recycling procedures to captive laborers and staff supervisors.

In October 2010, the Inspector General concluded a multi-year investigation of UNICOR’s recycling operations and issued a scathing report having found numerous violations of health, safety, and environmental laws and regulations, as well as “gross misconduct” by staff working for the Federal Prison Industries.

Selected Quotes from the Report:

> //“Federal employees and prisoners inhaling poisons due to the neglect of their superiors, and federal agencies whitewashing the investigation. It sounds like a Hollywood dramatization like Shawshank Redemption, or a John Grisham novel with wild conspiracy theories. In this case, however, workers and inmates were exposed to hazardous materials without protection… and the Bureau of Prisons and Federal Prison Industries did nothing to stop it, and indeed frustrated attempts to investigate the matter… Now some people might say, prisoners getting poisoned? What’s the big deal? Who cares? We do.”// > - U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch, investigator of UNICOR recycling > > > //“What I and others think is the funniest thing about this recycling plant is that the STATE made it illegal to dispose of computers and computer peripherals in their waste and garbage dumps, because it is hazardous to the health of STATE citizens. Guess who our biggest provider of old and recyclable computers and monitors is?? Yup, you guessed it: the good ol’ STATE!!! They are too dangerous for their law-abiding citizens, who need to be protected, but they aren’t too hazardous to federal prison inmates incarcerated in STATE, who are not given all the information, the correct or adequate tools…and who are not being given adequate safety gear to protect them from the hazardous wastes that the citizens are being protected from. Ironic, isn’t it??!!”// – Prisoner A

· Two quotes illustrative of arguments in the article. · List of three pieces of evidence used to support the main and sub-arguments. · Statement of how the article can inform your research. · List of information from the article that you can use in your report. *Note ways the article is relevant to other researchers in our research group.

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