"Currently there are labor systems that include prison workers who process the waste, a measure that has been controversial due to the hazards of processing e-waste and other ethical considerations. 

Meta-Actor: Scientific Community

Source Document: https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:102219/datastream/PDF/view

Date: May 2009

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UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries), as we make the case in the report, is not providing the kind of health and safety standards, the kind of living wages, or labor conditions that other workers have the right to. In many ways, as the report mentions too, they’re underbidding responsible recyclers, so not allowing for a market to grow of responsible recycling.”

Meta-Actor: Journalism

Source Document: http://grist.org/article/the-chain-gangs-of-the-information-age/

Date: December 23, 2006

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Prison labor, to say nothing of the impact to the laborers, artificially drives down the cost of recycling electronics, making it difficult for legitimate recyclers to maintain their businesses, much less take financial risks on advanced machinery to do the job better or more efficiently."

Meta-Actor: Scientific Community

Source Document: http://wp.istc.illinois.edu/sei/2010/05/27/the-controversial-issue-of-prison-labor/

Date: May 27, 2010

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"BAN, together with the Electronic TakeBack Coalition of which it is a part, has long opposed the use of prison labor because it subjects vulnerable prison populations to hazardous substances, provides for an unfair taxpayer funded subsidy which hurts the private sector development of recycling infrastructure, and allows criminals to inappropriate access to sensitive private data found on hard drives and other data media. 

Meta-Actor: Not-for-Profit

Source Document: http://archive.ban.org/ban_news/2010/101022_caught_exporting.html

Date: October 22, 2010