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Rick Perry Loses No Sleep Over His Kill Record

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Gus9/08/2011 12:13:13 pm PDT

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Private Prisons Lobby for Harsher Sentences

Posted on: June 29, 2011 9:55 AM, by Ed Brayton

If you’re looking for one of the reasons why the United States imprisons more people — by miles — than any other nation, you can look to the development of private prisons as a means of making some people rich. Those people spend millions of dollars to lobby elected officials to do two things: Convert government-run prisons to private prisons, and lock up more people for longer periods of time. Because that makes them even richer.

A new study by the Justice Policy Institute reaches exactly that conclusion and documents it thoroughly.

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