Green Production Practices?

This article has a number of production practices followed by a number of mainstream North American corporations, including Starbucks, Nintendo, Microsoft, Costco, Dell, Boeing, Victoria’s Secret, JCPenney, and Wal-Mart, to name a few.

What’s your opinion on having prisoners to make some of our regular consumable products?  Practical use of an untapped labour source or crime against humanity?

If you represent one or some of these companies, what are your views?