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Some Small Town Private Prison Bonds in Default
Loaded on Sept. 8, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Cost of Prison Systems,
Jail Specific.
Location:
United States of America.
The Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia is an example of everything that is wrong with small-town private-prison development. It's a story of local government officials seeking to make their community profit off the misery of others, only to end up in misery themselves.
ICDC had …
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