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LULAC Returns CCA Donation
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2009, page 26
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing,
Protests,
Immigration.
Location:
Texas.
As the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) prepared for a June 20, 2009 protest in Williamson County, Texas outside the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a secure immigration detention center run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), it was revealed that LULAC had accepted ...
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