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- CorpWatch: Prison Industry Issue - Private prisons and the use of prison labor and the human rights issues they raise, are just the tip of the iceberg in a web of interconnected business, government and class interests which critics dub the "prison industrial complex."
www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=119
- Moore Releases Report Critical of Private Prisons - Milwaukee State Senator Gwendolynne S. Moore expresses concern over the treatment of Wisconsin inmates sent out of the state, and concern for the industry.
www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/sen04/news/prison2000-6.htm
- Private Prisons - Eric Bates, reports on analyst expectations for the private share of the prison market to more than double in the next 5 years. [The Nation]
past.thenation.com/issue/980105/0105bate.htm
- Private Prisons Proposed for West Virginia - Developers have their eyes on property to construct two private prisons that would hold about 2,500 inmates. [Appalachian Focus]
www.appalachianfocus.org/_civil1/000000f6.htm
- Private Prisons: Profits of Crime - Phil Smith reports on the ethics, history and current state of private prisons. [Covert Action Quarterly]
mediafilter.org/MFF/Prison.html
- Privatization of Prison Medical Services Challenged - Prison medical workers disagree with Nevada Governor's plan to privatize medical care for inmates, for fear of lower quality of services. [North Lake Tahoe Bonanza]
www.tahoe.com/bonanza/stories.1.29.99/news/prisohealt21729Jan7329.html
- Reach Out and Gouge Someone - David Fischer takes a look at the boom in prison telephone systems. [U.S. News]
nl9.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=19970505006873&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%2219970505006873%22)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
- Steel Town Lockdown - Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. [Mother Jones]
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ00/steeltown.html
- Tennessee Retreats from Prison Privatization - Contains a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, on the decision by Tennessee not to privatize its prisons.
www.ncsl.org/programs/cj/CJL40598.HTM
- The Big (Empty) House - A new $45 million medium-security prison that is apparently the result of a miscommunication is set to open in Stewart County, Georgia next month and will have everything a correctional facility could need ... except prisoners. [MoJo Wire: Must Read]
www.motherjones.com/mustreads/081600.html
- The Prison-Industrial Complex - An analysis of the public and private systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the industry, with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
- The Ties that Bind - Commentary, by Carol Strick, about the ties between corporations and prisons. [North Coast Express]
www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/98-12%20WIN/tiesthatbind.html
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