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WA Prison Telemarketing Elicits Controversy - Again
In December 1997 and January 1998, statewide media attention spotlighted a "shocking" prison tele- marketing partnership between the Washington state Parks and Recreation Department and the Department of Corrections (DOC) Correctional Industries (CI). For two years prisoners at Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) manned the Parks Department's toll-free information hotline. …
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- A Zoo Within a Prison
- CCA Sells Self; Wackenhut Creates REIT
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