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Alaska: State Senate Leader Recognizes Dee Hubbard, Private Prison and Corruption Fighter

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

*Senator speaks to recognize state corruption fighter who died in '09* Feb 15, 2010 JUNEAU -- State Sen. Johnny Ellis took to the Senate floor Monday morning to recognize the behind-the-scenes work of a former state legislative aide who died last year. Dee Hubbard became a confidential source to the FBI back in 2003 as it began to investigate influence peddling in the state Legislature. Most people think of the federal corruption investigation in Alaska as a probe of bribery associated with oil taxes, but it began as "Operation Polar Pen" -- a private prison investigation. And Hubbard was a crusader against private prisons. "She is the person who very quietly with no fanfare remained anonymous throughout the FBI investigation, the Veco scandal, the private prison scandal," said Ellis, an Anchorage Democrat...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).