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Privatized Prisons in Arizona Helped Draft Laws to Send People to Prison
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-11-12 04:00
NPR reports that Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (PDF), the immigration bill that requires anyone who can't produce papers proving they are in the country legally to be arrested, was drafted with the help and influence of Arizona's private prison companies.
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