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TX: For the Lucios, Private Prison Consulting is a Family Affair- Corplan specializes in selling desperate communites prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

For the Lucios, Private Prison Consulting is a Family Affair by Forrest Wilder Texas Observer- Published on: Friday, April 23, 2010 Updated below State Rep. Eddie Lucio III, a Brownsville Democrat, is following in his father's footsteps by joining forces with Corplan Corrections, a scandal-plagued prison development company. Lucio is representing Argyle, Texas-based Corplan Corrections in its bid to build an immigration family detention center in Weslaco, a Rio Grande Valley town that is in Rep. Lucio's district. State Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., also a Democrat Brownsville, ?consulted? for Corplan in 2003 and 2004. Corplan and its CEO, James Parkey, specialize in selling desperate communities on risky government-financed prisons with promises of jobs and economic development...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).