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Ill ex-prison employees blame US gov. computer recycling program

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ill ex-prison employees blame US gov. program By BILL KACZOR July 6, 2010 - Seattle Times Associated Press Writer MARIANNA, Fla. ? When former prison worker Freda Cobb developed sores on her arms, legs and back in 1997, she didn't connect them to an inmate work program that recycles computers and other electronic goods at the penal institution in the Florida Panhandle. Nor when her hair fell out, when she had abdominal pains, when her weight shot up or when she developed other symptoms. Now, however, the 49-year-old medically retired guard and cook supervisor at Marianna Federal Correctional Institution is certain that byproducts of the electronic recycling program are to blame for those ills, as well as her memory loss, temporary blindness, ear pain and migraine headaches...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).