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NV: CCA Proposal for Building 6,000 cages

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Board of Prison Commissioners hearing April 14th: Question of for-profit prison plans to build 6,000 beds in Nevada 4-10-09 *I'm with the non-profit Private Corrections Institute and have been a researcher in the field of for-profit prisons for a dozen years. I've read scores of reports, most of the books on the subject and over 10,000 newspaper stories about them. I have obtained thousands of pages of documents under the Freedom of Information Act and through Open Records Act requests in at least ten states and dozens of municipalities. I've testified before numerous state legislative committees and municipalities around the country. The Corrections Corporation of America has gotten approval for the building of a 1,500-bed prison in Pahrump, in Nye County, from the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).