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AZ: Our Opinion: Keeping prisons in line. Lawmakers need to pass watchdog legislation over burgeoning private industry

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Our Opinion: Keeping prisons in line Lawmakers need to pass watchdog legislation over burgeoning private industry Tucson Citizen Another year, another attempt by the Arizona Legislature to exercise oversight over one of the state's true growth industries: private prisons. A bill introduced in the Legislature two years ago went nowhere, and a bill offered in 2007 by Sen. Jorge Luis Garcia, D-Tucson, never escaped from committee. We hope this year's version does not suffer a similar fate. Keeping the public safe is the government's responsibility, and watching over for-profit penitentiaries is an important part of that job. It's a big job. More than 4,000 Arizona inmates are housed in the 11 private prisons in the state, along with more than 9,000 out-of-state and federal inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).