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Do Rural Prisons Benefit Locals?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Do Rural Prisons Benefit Locals By Ben Adler July 1, 2010 Newsweekl Part of a Newsweek Series http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/01/do-rural-prisons-benefit-locals.html (for links to graphs and other articles) States like New York send prisoners from the city to the countryside. To these smaller communities, the incarcerated bring government dollars, political power, and potential problems. You can tell the economic story of New York?s Catskill Mountains region over the last century through the patch of land my maternal grandfather grew up on. Max and Minnie Lebowitz, my great-grandparents, who immigrated from Hungary, moved up to the country to escape the Lower East Side?s infamously crowded conditions and grind out a meager existence on a 62-acre farm...continue to full post

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