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Private Prison Woes in Ohio
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 9
Less than two years after it opened, the second privately operated prison in the state of Ohio is already in trouble. CiviGenics, a private prison company out of Massachusetts, has succumbed to pressure applied by the state employees union. On January 10, the director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Civigenics,
Contractor Misconduct,
Staffing,
Drug Treatment/Rehab,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Ohio.
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