Editing The Machine (section)

===Programme===
The issue with this is that I'm imagining delvers as being thoroughly screened before being sent down into the Machine. Background checks, psychological profiles, the lot. You can't risk having someone go crazy inside the Machine, potentially wrecking it, or even attacking other delvers. Not to mention the risk of theft.

There's also the fact that as an offshoot of the UN, UNSERC probably would at least have some kind of respect for basic human rights.

This doesn't rule out that less scrupulous nations with access to an "emergency hatch" couldn't send convicts down there. However, the odds of it being an official program is incredibly unlikely.