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PLN Associate Editor Attends ACA Conference
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2009, page 36
From August 7 to 12, 2009, the American Correctional Association (ACA) held its 139th Congress of Correction at the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The theme of the conference was “Effective Re-entry is Good Public Safety.”
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Prison Health Services,
Wexford Health Services,
Prisoner Media,
ACA.
Location:
Tennessee.
Founded in 1870 as the National Prison Association, the ACA is …
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