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Danish Funds Invest In American Private Prisons
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2020, page 26
Filed under:
Private Prisons.
Location:
United States of America.
by David M. Reutter
When one thinks of financial support for America’s privatized prisons, one assumes it primarily comes from entities in the United States. But that is not always the case.
A February 18, 2020 story by Danwatch, a Danish investigative website, uncovered three Danish pension funds that had ...
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