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Riot at Private Prison
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 4
On November 14, 1999, hundreds of prisoners housed at a privately operated prison in Taft, California, rioted in protest over conditions, according to The Bakersfield Californian. Prisoners at the Wackenhut Corrections run facility broke windows, televisions, and furniture causing some $60,000 in damage at the two year old prison in …
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