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Bailing Out the Private Prison Industry
The private-prison industry is in trouble. For close to a decade, its business boomed and its stock prices soared because state legislators across the country thought they could look both tough on crime and fiscally conservative if they contracted with private companies to handle the growing multitudes being sent to ...
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More from this issue:
- Bailing Out the Private Prison Industry, by Judith Greene
- Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison, by Lonnie Burton
- Suicides, Staff Negligence Plague Private Arkansas Juvenile Prison, by Lonnie Burton
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Failure to Timely Pay Filing Fee Dismissal Reversed
- U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations, by Gary Hunter
- U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations, by Gary Hunter
- High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court
- Montana Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Seal Settlement Agreement
- Prison Phone Rate Case Remanded to South Carolina State Court
- Wisconsin Ban on Sexually Explicit Materials Unconstitutional, by Bob Williams
- Grievance Retaliation States Claim
- Oregon Passes Pay-to-Stay Law
- New York Assault and Medical Case Settled for $5,000
- $400,000 Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Failure to Protect Suit
- Oregon Jail Settles Taser Suit for $197,000
- Arizona DOC's Endless Isolation of Suspected Gang Member Enjoined, by Roger Smith
- TDCJ-ID Must Provide Procedures for Prisoners to Identify Evidence Supporting Grievances
- $377,500 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Death
- Ohio Supreme Court Rules Indigent Sex Predator Gets Paid Expert Witness
- BOP Prisoner Release Public Notification Required Only If Current Offense Qualifies, by John E Dannenberg
- Illegal Strip Searches Cost Chicago Jail $6.8 Million, by Lonnie Burton
- Rape and Racism in Washington Prisons
- $50,000 Settlement in D.C. Retaliation Suit
- Wisconsin Jail Settles Escape Lawsuit with Escapee
- Compelled Attendance at AA/NA Violates Establishment Clause
- Former CCA Captain and Texas Probation Officer Pleads Guilty
- Section 2241 May Not Be Used to Challenge BOP Prison Placement
- Tenth Circuit Discusses Religious Rights in BOP
- Ohio Prison Supervisors Possibly Liable for Employing Known Racist Guard
- Eighth Amendment Challenge to California Integrated Yard Policy Is Triable, by Marvin Mentor
- County Supervisors Liable for Indemnifications, by John E Dannenberg
- Cold, Vermin and Sewage in New York Prison May Violate Eighth Amendment, by John E Dannenberg
- News in Brief
More from Judith Greene:
- Bailing Out the Private Prison Industry, May 15, 2002
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