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Milwaukee State Senator Gwendolynne S. Moore expresses concern over the treatment of Wisconsin
inmates sent out of the state, and about the industry.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/sen04/news/inthenews/prisons-1.htm
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Nader Tells Corporations to Get Out of the Prison Industry
Nader 2000 Campaign press release blasting the corporate prison industry as well as the Clinton
administration and George W. Bush for encouraging its growth.
http://www.votenader.org/press/000927corpprisons.html
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Arguments For and Against Prison Contracting
Outlines pros and cons of corrections outsourcing in cost, quality, accountability, and many other
categories. Excerpted from Charles Logan's book, Private Prisons: Cons and Pros.
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwsoci/proscons.html
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Reach Out and Gouge Someone
David Fischer takes a look at the boom in prison telephone systems. [U.S. News]
http://nl9.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&am....
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CorpWatch: Prison Industry Issue
Private prisons and the use of prison labor and the human rights issues they raise, are just the
tip of the iceberg in a web of interconnected business, government and class interests which
critics dub the "prison industrial complex."
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=119
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Private Prisons
Eric Bates, reports on analyst expectations for the private share of the prison market to more than
double in the next 5 years. [The Nation]
http://past.thenation.com/issue/980105/0105bate.htm
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Private Prisons: Profits of Crime
Article critical of private prisons. Discusses ethical, legal, practical, and historical arguments
against prison privatization. Published by Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1993.
http://mediafilter.org/MFF/Prison.html
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The Ties that Bind
Commentary, by Carol Strick, about the ties between corporations and prisons. [North Coast Express]
http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/98-12%20WIN/tiesthatbind.html
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Privatization of Prison Medical Services Challenged
Prison medical workers disagree with Nevada Governor's plan to privatize medical care for inmates,
for fear of lower quality of services. [North Lake Tahoe Bonanza]
http://www.tahoe.com/bonanza/stories.1.29.99/news/prisohealt21729Jan7329.html
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The Prison-Industrial Complex
An analysis of the public and private systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the industry,
with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
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The Big (Empty) House
A new $45 million medium-security prison that is apparently the result of a miscommunication is set
to open in Stewart County, Georgia next month and will have everything a correctional facility
could need ... except prisoners. [MoJo Wire: Must Read]
http://www.motherjones.com/mustreads/081600.html
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Steel Town Lockdown
Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison
capital of the world. [Mother Jones]
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ00/steeltown.html
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Tennessee Retreats from Prison Privatization
Contains a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, on the decision by Tennessee
not to privatize its prisons.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cj/CJL40598.HTM
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