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"How The Recession Hurts Private Prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this Newsweek feature.  Here is how the interesting piece gets started: Baldwin, Mich., (population 1,107), will soon have more prison beds than full-time residents. On the outskirts of town, one of the country?s largest private prison companies recently spent $60 million to expand a former juvenile prison into a 1,755-bed facility meant to house illegal immigrants before deportation.  This is the same town where every summer locals gather for a carnival nicknamed Troutarama at which teenage girls vie for the crown of Ms. Lake County. Thirty-two percent of Baldwin?s families live below the poverty line, in a state with a 13.6 percent unemployment rate, compared to the national unemployment rate of 9...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 03, 2010 (boomark / email).