ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....
Corrections Firm Offers States Cash For Prisons
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press
Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:37am
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