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Dee Hubbard: Fighter Against Corruption and Private Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

One for the little people By Krestia DeGeorge Anchorage Press September 2, 2009 According to the story, written by Rich Mauer, Hubbard bears no small responsibility for the start of what would eventually become the federal government?s investigation into government corruption in Alaska. Mrs. Hubbard once worked in government, and had brushes with it as an engaged citizen?the piece describes a fight that went to the assembly to save a Muldoon neighborhood library. But Hubbard?s moment came late in life, when she and her husband learned of a group that was working on building a private prison in the state. As Mauer recounts: ?She and her husband began following the money, from halfway house contracts that [Bill] Weimar held with the state Corrections Department to political contributions by [Bill] Allen, whose company, Veco, would have built the prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).