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A Day at the Human Zoo
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
by Alice Lynd
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 21
My husband and I toured the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, a new "private prison" that is soon to open in Youngstown. Near the entrance there is a bulletin board with the words, "Yesterday's Closing Stock Price," a reminder that the Corrections Corporation of America is in business to make a ...
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Conditions of Confinement,
Prison Tourism/Consumerism.
Location:
Ohio.
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