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Maine considers private prison bill

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Maine considers private prison bill By Glenn Adams Associated Press / February 6, 2011 AUGUSTA, Maine?Prospects of building a privately run prison in the economically depressed town of Milo appear to be gaining momentum with a new administration in the State House and legislation being prepared to pave the way for such a project. Republican Sen. Douglas Thomas' bill has yet to be fleshed out, but it's clearly aimed at authorizing a prison in the Piscataquis County town of about 2,400, which has a double-digit unemployment rate and has been buffeted by a loss of businesses not to mention devastating fire in 2008 that wiped out a third of its downtown. "If there's a chance of getting 100 good-paying jobs, I'm interested," said Thomas, of Ripley...continue to full post

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