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Pahrump NV: Opponents raise their voices

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The PUC "isn't four or five stiffs that live in Pahrump or Tonopah," he said. Smith said each inmate needs 150 gallons of water per day. He appealed to fears over the sinking water table adding, "CCA is going to be sucking that with the biggest straw you've ever seen ... They've come here and sold this proposal to a county commission that doesn't know any better, that should know better." Jan. 23, 2009 Opponents raise their voices By MARK WAITE PVT (Pahrump Valley Times) Whether the controversy over the proposed federal detention center will bring national publicity to Pahrump remains to be seen. A film crew from Dan Rather Reports, a program aired on HD Net, a subscriber network available on high-definition TV, was on hand to tape about 80 opponents of the Corrections Corporation of America project crammed into a strategy meeting in a back room at the Pahrump Community Library last Thursday night...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).