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Mass Incarceration In Rural Communities: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

By David Gutierrez, Harvard Political Review

When the local economy of Susanville, California stagnated, the town tried to use a newly constructed prison as a recovery tool. Opened in the late 1990s, High Desert State Prison cost $272 million to build. High Desert, originally intended to be a low- to medium-security prison, became a Level ...

 

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