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North Carolina County Conned into Building $100 Million Jail
Loaded on May 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2013, page 26
For evidence that the art of the slick-talking conman is very much alive, witness Guilford County, North Carolina.
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The county’s new $100 million, 1,032-bed lockup in downtown Greensboro was built based on spurious claims that the jail population would increase significantly. Voters narrowly approved a bond referendum for the new ...
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