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Georgia DOC Turns to Private Prisons
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
by Alex Friedmann
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 13
According to a report by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, by July 2003 the state will have just 42,000 prison beds for a projected 55,000 state prisoners. This imbalance is primarily due to a "two strikes" law that took effect on January 1, 1995 and a new parole ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Cornell Corrections,
Overcrowding.
Location:
Georgia.
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