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Lawsuit Over Alabama Private Mega-Prison Leases Dismissed
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2021
by Daniel A. Rosen
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2021, page 30
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic.
Location:
Alabama.
by Daniel A. Rosen
An Alabama judge recently ruled on a legal challenge seeking to block Governor Kay Ivey’s plan to lease three new privately-built mega-prisons in the state, siding with the Governor. Republican State Auditor Jim Ziegler and others had sued to block the leases, claiming they were an ...
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