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CCA's Puryear's In Jeopardy Due to Former Prisoner's Organizing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ex-inmate helps make Bush nominee 'controversial' By TRAVIS LOLLER ? 7 hours ago NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now. But a determined opponent ? a former prisoner at a Corrections Corporation of America facility in Clifton, Tenn. ? has worked tirelessly to see that would not happen. And he may have succeeded. More than a year after President Bush nominated Gustavus A. Puryear IV to become a U.S. district judge in Nashville, the 40-year-old's appointment appears to be in serious trouble, thanks in no small part to Alex Friedmann, a convicted armed robber turned inmate advocate...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).