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Alaska Prisoners in Exile
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
by Anthony Brown
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 14
I would like to respond to a News in Brief segment of your February 1995 issue of PLN concerning the shipment of Alaska state prisoners to the Penal Detention Center [a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America] in Florence, AZ, supposedly to ease overcrowding and avoid fines …
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Overcrowding.
Location:
Alaska.
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