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| Prisons Make Or Break Small Towns |
| By informant.kalwnews.org |
| Published: 12/14/2010 |
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A California town is devastated; meanwhile, a rural Michigan community is ecstatic. Why? One lost a prison and the other gained one. Since the 1980s, prisons have been going rural: in the 1970s, about four a year were built in rural counties; in the 1980s that jumped to 16 a year; in the 1990s, 25. A 2000 New York Times article titled “Rural Towns Turn to Prisons to Reignite Their Economies” said it all. In areas stripped of family farms and factories, reporter Peter Kilborn wrote: “More than a Wal-Mart or a meat-packing plant, state, federal and private prisons, typically housing 1,000 inmates and providing 300 jobs, can put a town on solid economic footing.” But what happens when they go away? Read More. |
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