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Topic: Private Prisons

A view of the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California, United States on February 07, 2025. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The prison industry is booming

Russell Payne
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Why are private prisons controversial?

John M. Eason - The Conversation
Monroe Laws and Antoine Money mix ingredients to make a nutraloaf, a meal typically given to inmates for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, before cooking it in a kitchen at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Privatized prison food: Just say no

Tom Perkins - Civil Eats
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Private prison heads dine at Trump place

Charlie May
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This is why prison reform is so hard

Charlie May
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City signs with private prison

Vincent Peña - Salon Young Americans
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Private prison makes demands

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet
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Brett C. Burkhardt - The Conversation
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John M. Eason - The Conversation
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Trump's deportation agenda

Sarah Lazare - Alternet
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Richard Lachmann - The Conversation
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April M. Short - Alternet
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Private prisons like trump

Jonathan Mattise
Two young girls at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, June 18, 2014. (Reuters/Ross D. Franklin)

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Incarceration nation

Ben Norton
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Beyond private prisons

Daniel Denvir
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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Bernie's prison blindspot

Nathan McDermott
(Reuters/Craig Lassig)

Sanders' war on private prison

Sophia Tesfaye
In this July 6,2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine. Sanders is packing 'em in: 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin. More than 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Another 7,500 this week in Portland. The trick for the independent senator from Vermont is to turn all that excitement into something more than a summer fling.( (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Private prisons get Bern-ed

Sophia Tesfaye

Aaron Cantú - Alternet
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Natasha Lennard

April M. Short - Alternet
Jerry Brown (Reuters/David McNew/AP/Eric Risberg)

Worst corporate bailout ever?

David Dayen
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