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Former Inmate Returns to Prison for Graduation

Russell Hawthorne, or Rusty to his inner circle, had been released from Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls, Georgia — but he returned— gladly. He didn’t go back to be behind bars. He went back to join his graduating class and receive his welding certificate. The prison education program he went through while incarcerated did exactly

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States Wrestle with Prison Privatization

By Christopher Zoukis In 2016, questions were raised in at least three states about the amount of taxpayer money flowing into the coffers of private, for-profit prison companies. Take Colorado, for example. When lawmakers were considering an almost $26 billion state budget last year, they noticed it included a curious last-minute addition: $3 million for

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