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Task Force Linked to Harsh Sentencing Laws and Private Prison Firms Disbands Following Public Scrutiny, Boycott
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2014, page 22
A national campaign to shut down a quasi-governmental task force backed by powerful corporate interests, which has promoted harsher sentences, prison privatization and controversial “stand your ground” gun rights legislation, was successful thanks to public pressure and a boycott started by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
News.
Location:
United States of America.
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