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March 29, 2016 09:32 am PDT
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As criminal justice reform looms, private prison companies get into immigration detention, halfway houses, electronic monitoring, mental health
Nixon's War on Drugs, Reagan's three strikes rules, and Clinton's "superpredator" crime bill turned America into history's greatest imprisoner, a carceral state where a racially biased justice system was made worse with every passing day, thanks to the campaign contributions and lobbying by the private prison industry, led by Corrections Corporation of America. (more…)
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