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Report: Prisons Produce No Economic Benefits to Communities

By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Thu Feb 13, 2003 at 07:05:27 AM EST
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The Sentencing Project's new report, Big Prisons, Small Towns: Prison Economics in Rural America, is available. The report finds that rural prisons produce no positive economic benefits for local communities. The AP article on the report is here.

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