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Prisoners and Workers Poisoned by Prison Reycling at UNICOR are suing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories by Brandon Sample Prison Legal News https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/20750_displayArticle.aspx Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the largest legal sweatshop in America, has jeopardized the lives and safety of untold numbers of prisoners and staff working in its recycling factories, according to a preliminary report in an investigation by the Justice Department?s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and an evaluation issued by the Federal Occupational Health Service in October 2008. FPI, a wholly-owned government corporation commonly known as UNICOR, was founded in 1934 with the aim of rehabilitating federal prisoners through job training that could be used to increase their employability upon release from prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).