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Prisoner Labor

  • Toxic Sweatshops: How UNICOR Prison Recycling Harms Workers, Communities, the Environment, and the Recycling Industry, [PDF] Prison Activist Resource Center. October, 2006. "UNICOR facilities repeatedly failed to provide proper recycling procedures to captive laborers and staff supervisors."
  • Corporate Strategies for Electronics Recycling: A Tale of Two Systems, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. June, 2003. (compares Dell's use of prison labor with the practices of HP)
  • UNICOR 2001 Annual Report [PDF] Bureau of Prisons. 2002. (UNICOR is the trade name for the federal prison industries)
  • Factories with Fences: The History of Federal Prison Industries, [PDF] Bureau of Prisons. May, 1996.
  • Prisoner Labor: Perspectives on Paying the Federal Minimum Wage, General Accounting Office. May, 1993. (Order a printed copy of the full report by requesting publication GGD-93-98 on the http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/ordtab.plGAO order form)

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