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Private Transportation Firms Take Prisoners for a Ride

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997 by Alex Friedmann published in Prison Legal News November, 1997, page 1
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Transport Companies, Contractor Misconduct, Escapes, Wrongful Death, Accidents. Location: United States of America.

by Alex Friedmann

Many of the hundred-thousand-plus prisoners of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are familiar with the BOP's buses that shuttle convicts around the country. The federal government also maintains a fleet of a dozen planes designated for transporting prisoners, known as ConAir, which was brought to the ...

 

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