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No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006
by Silja JA Talvi
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2006, page 28
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Esmor/CSC,
Staffing,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Location:
Hawaii.
No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder-
gets-the-convict shuffle game
by Silja J.A. Talvi
It has been an arduous, surreal journey for eight Hawaiian female prisoners sent to do their time
on the mainland.
The plight of this group of women …
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