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Mississippi Sticks with Private Prisons

Courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections
By R.L. Nave
Jackson Free Press | June 14, 2012
This summer, private-prisons company MTC will take over running three Mississippi Department of Corrections facilities from The GEO Group.
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Tags: private prisons, Mississippi, prison privatization

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