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Does Political Spending by Private Prison Firms in Oklahoma Influence Prison Reform?
Loaded on July 31, 2015
by Joe Watson
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2015, page 54
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Avalon,
Lobbying.
Location:
Oklahoma.
Does Political Spending by Private Prison Firms in Oklahoma Influence Prison Reform?
by Joe Watson
Three private prison corporations, including the nation’s two largest, have contributed more than a combined $400,000 to political candidates in Oklahoma since 2004, prompting at least one prominent state legislator to question the correlation between ...
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