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Art_from_Ark

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14. I think the author should check who was President in 1990
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 10:15 PM
Nov 2013

because it was not who she thinks it was

"The prison privatization boom began in the 1980s, under the governments of Ronald Reagan and Bush Sr., but reached its height in 1990 under William Clinton, when Wall Street stocks were selling like hotcakes. Clinton’s program for cutting the federal workforce resulted in the Justice Departments contracting of private prison corporations for the incarceration of undocumented workers and high-security inmates."

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