Topic: for_profit_prisons (37 articles)

Description: prisons which exist to make money for the owners or shareholders

Guantanamo firm's fresh bid for Kiwi prisons
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stuff - (Australia) GEO is not new to prison management in New Zealand. (Sat Mar 20 14:50:55 2010 PDT) [also stuff.co.nz10433, stuff.co.nz9796, stuff.co.nz7648, stuff.co.nz9032]

TOP: House of Correction improved since sheriff took over, report says - JSOnline
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jsonline - The once troubled House of Correction in Franklin has undergone a major transformation, with big i... (Sat Mar 20 14:38:11 2010 PDT)

Green gubernatorial campaigns to watch in 2010: candidates in California ...
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gp - (US) Abolish the death penalty, the prison industrial complex, racism against immigrants and all people of color. (Sat Mar 20 04:51:26 2010 PDT)

Attorney hired to help find use for Hardin jail
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helenair - (US) Max Baucus, D-Mont.; and representatives of the construction company that built the jail and a company that operates private prisons. (Fri Mar 19 23:20:52 2010 PDT)

MAINE COMPASS: Not nameless inmates, but our neighbors
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onlinesentinel - At any one time, about 13 percent of prisoners at the Maine State Prison are in segregation — the same number employed in the Prison Industries Program that produces knickknacks for the prison store in Thomaston. Legislators who puff themselves up as protectors of society are negligently cutting off alternat... (Thu Mar 18 23:50:15 2010 PDT)

Afghan boss who controls the border
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saudigazette.com.sa - (US) Razziq and his men control one of the main outgoing routes from the southern Afghan agricultural heartland that produces nearly all the worldb s illegal opium. It described his own lavish compound, filled with armoured vehicles, and said he runs a network of private prisons for those who cross him. (Thu Mar 18 21:06:08 2010 PDT) [also theusdaily5652]

US troops leave border to Afghan boss accused of graft
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en.apa.az - [R...] ... (Wed Mar 17 20:55:05 2010 PDT)

more for_profit_prisons items (37 articles)

Links

• http://www.privateci.org/
• http://mediafilter.org/caq/Prison.html
• Prison-industrial complex
• Jail Breaks: Subsidies Given to Private Prisons
• http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/crimepays.htm
• http://www.hermes-press.com/prisons_drugs.htm
• http://www.mapinc.org/prison.htm

Concept definition

• for_profit_prisons