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Private Capitol Punishment: The Florida Model

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2004 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News December, 2004, page 19
Filed under: Private Prisons, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Reviews. Location: Florida.
by Ken Kopczynski, 111 pp. 2004, Authorhouse, softbound

Reviewed by David M. Reutter

As the prison industrial complex has expanded, the privatization of prisons has increased. The pages of PLN have chronicled the mental and physical abuse, as well as medical neglect, suffered by those warehoused in privatized prisons. Private ...

 

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