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| New Warden Debates Private Versus Public |
| By lvrj.com |
| Published: 09/27/2010 |
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Although for-profit prisons have been around for more than two decades, time has not diluted the opposition to them by community and national groups. So as warden Joseph Ponte opens the Nevada Southern Detention Center on Oct. 1 as Nevada's first for-profit prison, he realizes he will have a bull's-eye on his back. "If there were two escapes tomorrow, one from a private facility and one from a public facility, the private facility would be all over the papers," said Ponte, who has been a warden in both types of prisons during his 41-year career. "The public facility would hit the press a little bit and go away. No one ever advocated closing a public facility down because they had an escape." Read More. |
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