(Credit: Getty/Instants) In Arizona, private prisons have been used by the state since the mid 1990s. But in May, the City of Mesa, a southeastern suburb of Phoenix, passed a measure to begin a three-year contract with the private prison company CoreCivic, a company marred in controversy and lawsuits across the country, becoming the first major Arizona city to use private prisons. Private prisons, or for-profit prisons, are privately owned facilities on government contract to house inmates.
Arizona Doesn’t Need Any More For-profit Prisons
Vincent Peña, Salon Young Americans, Salon: Politics
Thu, 08/17/2017 - 4:59am
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