Reblogged from NonviolentConflict:
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Lance Page/t r u t h o u t
While New Hampshire’s corrections department reviews proposals from private companies seeking to build and operate its prisons, the state’s residents are learning how prison privatization has played out elsewhere—namely, in Arizona.
Arizona has embraced prison privatization. Currently, five state prisons are run by private companies, housing 13% of the prison population, and the state recently signed a contract for an additional 1,500 beds.
