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The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 26
The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It
Filed under:
Reviews,
Statistics/Trends,
Conditions of Confinement,
Staffing.
Location:
United States of America.
by Gary Hunter
With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. It quickly found that the problems facing the new detention industries ...
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