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Follow the Money: Invisible Investors Seek Big Bucks in Mass Incarceration
Loaded on Dec. 2, 2015
by James Kilgore
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 50
Filed under:
California Forensic Medical Group,
Private Contractors,
Class Certification.
Location:
California.
by James Kilgore and Brian Dolinar, Truthout
When authorities booked Richard Murphy into the jail in Monterey, California on January 18, 2013, the war veteran likely never envisioned ending up being back in court months later, not to face criminal charges, but to expose the abuse he would suffer at ...
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