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Ohio ACLU, Other Organizations Release Reports on Prison Privatization

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News December, 2011, page 22
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Statistics/Trends, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism. Location: Ohio.
In April 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released an expansive report entitled Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes that privately-operated prisons result in little or no savings and …

 

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