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Michigan Prisons

Justice Scaled

Delphia Simmons | Posted 04.08.2013 | Detroit
Read More: Incarceration, Jail, Prison Industrial Complex, Michigan Prisons, Prison, Kwame Kilpatrick Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit News
Delphia Simmons

Recently I learned of something even more disturbing than our former mayor's pending indictment.

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Chris Kirkham

State Considers Reopening Troubled Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 01.15.2013 | Business
Read More: Detroit Crime, Michigan Prisons, Business News, Michigan Private Prisons, Governor Rick Snyder, Geo Group, Private Prisons, For-Profit Prisons, North Lake Correctional Center, For Profit Prisons, Rick Snyder, Business News

Looking to cut a corrections budget that accounts for nearly a quarter of the state's general fund each year, Michigan lawmakers have reopened the doo...

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The Private Prison Industry: Resistance Isn't Futile

Eric Lotke | Posted 04.30.2012 | Crime
Read More: Florida Prisons, Michigan Prisons, SB 2036 Prisons, Prisons US, North Lake Prison, Private Prisons, Prison Privatization, Private Prisons Legislation, Crime News
Eric Lotke

The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it's making moves in Michigan. But the industry doesn't always win. Resistance isn't futile.

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