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rocktivity

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6. I doubt that the release of this story helped
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:04 PM
Feb 2012
Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons

Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for "challenging corrections budgets." In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full...


And how would the states go about fulfilling that "assurance" -- going on mass arrest raids, especially during times when the prisons need a higher number of laborers? Anyhoo, cue the Vonage theme!


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