[IN-DEPTH] Big business of prisons in Pinal County
By Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a 2-part series. Part 2 will be published Thursday.
A private business holding prisoners for profit is an idea that goes way back.
“We had private for-profit prisons in the 17- and 1800s. It was a conglomeration of the Quakers, the unions and other church groups and do-gooder groups that came together to fight them,” said Dianne Post, an attorney and the legal redress chairperson for the Maricopa County NAACP.
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Part 2 WORKING BEHIND FENCES Special in-depth report: Big business of prisons in Pinal County
