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Hawaii AG Study Confirms Ineffectiveness of Mainland Private Prisons
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2012
by Joe Watson
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2012, page 30
Academic researchers in Hawaii believe that exiling offenders to private prisons thousands of miles away on the U.S. mainland is misguided. And the Hawaii Attorney General’s office (AG) – the state’s Big Kahuna of law enforcement – actually agrees.
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic.
Location:
Hawaii.
A federally-funded report released last year by the AG recommends that ...
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