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Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2007, page 1
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Environmental Law,
Sewage,
Water,
Clean Water Act.
Locations:
Alabama,
California,
Florida,
Georgia,
Indiana,
Kentucky,
Massachusetts,
Maryland,
Michigan,
New Jersey,
New Mexico,
New York,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania,
Texas,
Virginia,
Washington.
Aging infrastructure concerns are not limited to America's highways, bridges and dams. Today, crumbling, overcrowded prisons and jails nationwide are bursting at the seams -- literally -- leaking environmentally dangerous effluents not just inside prisons, but also into local rivers, water tables and community water supplies. ...
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