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Cheney, Gonzales Indicted in 'Prisonville'

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Bond Buyer November 20, 2008 Thursday SECTION: THE REGIONS; Pg. 1 Vol. 365 No. 33012 The Bond Buyer November 20, 2008 Thursday SECTION: THE REGIONS; Pg. 1 Vol. 365 No. 33012 Cheney, Gonzales Indicted in 'Prisonville' BYLINE: Richard Williamson DALLAS - Indictments of Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and other public officials represent the latest ina series of unusual episodes in an impoverished South Texas county nicknamedPrisonville. Through the issuance of $141 million of revenue bonds since 2002, Willacy County has made incarceration its major industry, supplanting onion farming.The construction of the private prisons has made the county a hub for detentions by the Department of Homeland Security...continue to full post

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