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Tennessee Prison Privatization Bill Fails to Pass
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998
by Alex Friedmann
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1998, page 16
Adramatic confrontation between the private corrections industry and opponents of prison privatization played out in Tennessee earlier this year, ending in an embarrassing defeat for the prison profiteers. Similar struggles can be expected in other states as privatization continues to expand across the nation's corrections systems -- and the Tennessee ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing,
State Legislation.
Location:
Tennessee.
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