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Texas Towns Saddled with Empty, Expensive Privatized Prisons and Jails

by Matt Clarke

In July 2011, anyone with at least $5 million to spare was invited to bid on a 373-bed, state-of-the-art, turn-key minimum-security prison on 30 acres of land in the cotton-farming town of Littlefield, Texas.

The tiny town, with a population of 6,500, agreed to build what was ...

 

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