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http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=4279633a-ddee-4b02-aebc-7fe5add86855%40sessionmgr4001&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=18737057

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'''electronics recycling division of Federal Prison Industries (better known as UNICOR)

electronic recycling is UNICOR’s fastest-growing business. But according to reports from prisons where this work is being done and interviews with former inmates employed by UNICOR, it’s taking place under conditions that pose serious hazards to prison staff and inmates.

workers at Atwater’s UNICOR facility are routinely exposed to dust from heavy metals. They were eating lunch in an area contaminated by lead,barium, beryllium and cadmium, he says, and using safety equipment that doesn’t meet OSHA standards. Neither staff nor inmates were properly informed about the hazards,

The cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in computer and television monitors contain lead, a neurotoxin, as do printed circuit boards. A typical desktop computer may contain up to eight pounds of lead. Mercury, another neurotoxin, is used in flat-panel display screens. Monitors contain cadmium, a known carcinogen.Circuit boards and exteriors use plastics containing flame retard- ants documented as disrupting thyroid hormone function and acting as neurotoxins in animals.

UNICOR doesn’t just save money by busting up monitors and paying prison wages. Instead of investing in state-of-the-art dis-assembly equipment and durable safety gear, UNICOR reportedly distributed ball-peen hammers and cloth gloves to inmates working at Atwater. “The gloves ripped easily and there were lots ofbad scratches and cuts,” a former Atwater UNICOR worker told me. Staff and inmates who worked at UNICOR’s Elkton, Ohio, and Texarkana, Texas, operations have similar accounts of broken glass, noxious dust and injuries resulting from inadequate tools.

because UNICOR works behind bars, it has another advantage over its competitors: It doesn’t have to be prepared for unannounced OSHA inspections '''

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Going to try and work on my post. I do see some of the errors i have made as to why this would be taken down but i would appreciate any help from anyone reading this as to how to make it better.

The quoted parts i will need to remove completely as it appears to not be allowed for the wiki pages so from my understanding i will need to rewrite those in my own words. i think most everything else i should be ok.... i think. I tried to use my own words from what i read out of the article but some points, like names of cities or actual numbers or counts, i i think are ok to leave.

From a health and safety standard the Prison Industrial Complex and also caused a concern for prisoner safety. In normal circumstances when a manufacture wishes to create a product their are certain safety protocols that would have to be followed to ensure the safety of the individuals and of the surrounding area. Protocols regarding toxic substance would normally be carefully monitored for handling and disposal of such substances. This however is not always the case regarding factories run by prison groups. Prison groups are not always monitored or looked into with the scrutiny that other private factories and business are subjected to. As a result of this lack of scrutiny this leaves prison with an opportunity to cut corners, regarding safety and disposal of substances that would otherwise be restricted or illegal, thus allowing prisons to save substantial costs on goods they manufacture and sell.

“A case in point here is the highly toxic computer and electronics recycling industry whose work is now done by state prisoners in places like South Carolina and by federal prisoners working in factories run by the Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) "Recycling Business Group.”

By being able to avoid health and safety inspectors, as compared to other private factory business, these prisons are able to keep their costs down for manufacturing in conjunction with the low cost of pay they give for the prisoners who perform this labor. When a prison uses its prisoners to work on or near toxic substance there runs the risk of individuals becoming infected or poisoned. With no safety protocols being enforced to prevent or protect these individuals there is little incentive to report or care for them when an incident does occur. Incidents that are reported would lead to costs for care and recovery of the individual or clean up and disposable of the substance on top of any fines that may be imposed for failure to comply with safety standards and protocols. This can result in prisons choosing not to reports incident and making decisions to cover them up instead.

One such example of a safety issue was at the computer recycling factory at Marianna, Florida's Federal Prison Camp. Female prisoners were instructed to take and remove valuable processors and cathode ray tubes from computers by smashing them with hammers and other crude instruments. This resulted in clouds of cadmium and lead dust that covered and coated the surfaces of the prison and surrounding area. When concerns for their safety was brought to supervisor attention about what health affects this would have on them they were informed “not to worry about it”. "None of the prisoners or staff were supplied with masks, gloves, coveralls, or other personal protective equipment". Unfortunately some of the guards and prisoners did become ill as a result of exposure to this toxic substance."“According to a 2010 investigation by the Department of Justice, "Staff and inmates were repeatedly exposed to toxic metals—cadmium and lead, workers [were] not adequately protected from exposures, workers and inmates [were] not properly monitored for potential exposures, [there was a] failure to report inmate injuries, inmates were made to load shipping containers with e-waste, which were then exported; and UNICOR concealed actual working conditions from inspectors by cleaning up production lines before they arrived."

Even though reports of such incidents have risen to the public attention little has been changed on the prisons end regarding prisoner health and safety.

Health and safety

Article: THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Author: Thompson, Heather Ann Journal: pg 41-43

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i am creating a new section that i will use to for new sources of information i find that relate to health and safety of the prison industrial complex. It is my hope/attempt that i will find sources that agree/hold similar information. Once i have finished writing down my new information here i will create a third new section and rewrite my posts so that they only contain information that is covered from many/multiple sources. my hope is to have this up by next week at some point.

new section for peer review on topic discretion
in the part about  "...laws cannot be written without using discretion..." it seems a little unclear to me about the "using" part as i would think it would be more about the law be written and discretion is what individuals use "in applying" the law. I'm not quite sure it comes across that way as written. When i first read it it seemed like it was saying the law had to either be written with discretion pieces in it or that the law was written vaguely at to be open for interpretation.

adding a little bit more to explain/clarify this would help to make it clear

your ideas/suggestion for what you would like to see done to improve the topic (from the talk page) i think covers many options/areas that can be worked on/improved going forward. I think it will just be a matter of what areas you want to focus on to improve with what few weeks we have left for the project

''There are some arguments that implementing discretion overrules or weakens the rule of law. However, laws cannot be written without using discretion and therefore the rule of law serves to guide discretion towards societal expectations, norms and, at least in part, public interes''

I think that "however" might be better to come after the word "Law". ( Laws, however, cannot be written....)

 But, where law ends and discretion begins lies in implementing those laws.

Starting the sentence with "but" reads a little strange. perhaps a phrase such as " an important piece of where law ends..."

''The Dispatch officer decides the priority of the call, an officer responding has discretion to take statements from witnesses as well as detain potential suspects. ''

Perhaps combining the two sentences together such as ( The Dispatch officer decides the priority of the call and an officer responding has...)

The suspect/the accused has the discretion to obtain a lawyer, how they will plead and to accept a plea bargain.

kind of the same problem. Try combining the two sentences with "and"

Final revision section for two sources for wiki project topic
Private or for profit prisons have an incentive in making decisions in regards to cutting costs while generating a profit. One method for this is using prison inmates as a labor force to perform production work.

When a prison uses its prisoners to work on or near toxic substances there runs the risk of individuals becoming infected or poisoned as a result of coming into contact with them. Any incidents that do occur are supposed to be reported and appropriate health and safety measures are to be taken for all involved. Incidents, however, that are reported would result in costs for care and recovery of the individual or clean up and disposable of the substances including any fines that may be imposed for failure to comply with safety standards and protocols. When there is less incentive to report or care for individuals when an incident does occur, given the costs of reporting verses ignoring or covering up the incident, a prison may be inclined to overlook safety protocols rather than enforce them to prevent or protect these individuals. This can result in prisons choosing not to report incidents and making decisions to cover them up instead.

At two UNICOR facility prison camps prisoners were instructed to take and remove valuable processors and cathode ray tubes from computers by smashing them with hammers and other crude instruments. This resulted in clouds of cadmium and lead dust that covered and coated the surfaces of the prison and surrounding area. This dust is toxic when inhaled or ingested.

According to a 2010 investigation by the Department of Justice many of the employees and prisoners were exposed to toxic metals from not being sufficiently trained nor the resources given to handle toxic material. Injury and illness as a result were not reported to appropriate authorities. When investigated they found that UNICOR had attempted to conceal evidence of working conditions from inspectors by cleaning up the production lines before they arrived.

Shadowbolt7 (talk) 19:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)