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Thursday, January 03, 2013

Private prison news 2012 retrospective

The blog Texas Prison Bidness has posted its top six private prison stories of 2012. Check them out here:
#1 - Momentum Builds To Close CCA's Dawson State Jail
#2 - GEO Group Loses Bid to Expand Mental Health Care Operations, Take Over Kerrville State Hospital 
#3 - CCA Offers To Buy State Prisons in Return for 90% Occupancy Guarantee, Gets Rejected 
#4 - Conditions at Two Texas Detention Centers Highlighted In "Expose and Close" Campaign 
#5 - Momentum Grows Against Private Prisons Nationally 
#6 - The Ballad of Liberty County
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