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Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates
Loaded on May 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1993, page 12
Minn. Prison signs Contract for Puerto Rican InmatesSt. Paul, Minn. - about 500 prisoners from Puerto Rico will come to Minnesota as early as this month under a deal that finally will fill a privately operated prison in Appleton built to create jobs.
Appleton officials said they had signed …
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