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NV: Article on Frank Smith Fighting Detention Center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Oct. 15, 2008 Opponent plans meeting on detention center By MARK WAITE Pahrump Valley Times (Nevada) Officials from Corrections Corporation of America don't plan to be in attendance when the Private Corrections Institute hosts a meeting on the pros and cons of a federal detention center in Pahrump at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Hafen Elementary School Auditorium. Frank Smith, field organizer for the Private Corrections Institute will be the featured speaker. He invited prominent local opponents of the project to join him on a panel. A biography on the Private Corrections Institute Web site states Smith has been a social justice activist for four decades, involved in criminal justice research, worked on a medical marijuana initiative in Alaska, labor organization, moratoriums on prison construction, restoring civl rights, alternatives to incarceration and programs offering substance abuse treatment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).