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The Prison Privatization Debate
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1993
by Ed Mead
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1993, page 2
"Prisons are by their very nature coercive and oppressive institutions, designed to disempower and destroy the resistance of those confined within them, so any discussion of `reform' is largely meaningless and futile. Prisons, whether controlled and operated by the state or private companies, are weapons utilized by the powerful to …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison Labor,
OB/GYN,
Prisoners-International,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Locations:
United Kingdom,
Kentucky,
Tennessee.
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More from this issue:
- Serial Litigators, by Adrian Lomax
- The Prison Privatization Debate, by Ed Mead
- BOP Agency for APA Purposes
- Pre-Trial Detainees Don't Have to Work
- Access to Courts Right Explained
- Sundiata Acoli Needs Letters
- Temp Workers Come to Prison
- Publication Reviews: Nationalist Struggles, by Ed Mead
- Criminal Justice Statistics, by Ed Mead
- States Must Furnish Equivalent of Jailhouse Lawyers for Filing Prisoner Complaint
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Freedom for Gerhard Bogelein
- Letter from Exile, by Ray Luc Levasseur
- Religious Standards Applied
- Damages Awarded in Beating Case
- Retrial for Damages Alone Appropriate
- Prison Journalist Punished, by Adrian Lomax
- APA Partially Applicable to Arizona's DOC
More from Ed Mead:
- Class Differences in Crime Control, Feb. 15, 1994
- Law of Medical Treatment Explained, Jan. 15, 1994
- Editorial, Jan. 15, 1994
- Gender Based Treatment Disparity Violates Equal Protection, Dec. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Nov. 15, 1993
- The Politics of Imprisonment, Nov. 15, 1993
- Prison Slavery Upheld, Again, Oct. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA, Sept. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation, Sept. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Sept. 15, 1993
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