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NV: Pahrump: fight continues against detention center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"At the time, there was no group like Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community, no anti-prison privatization consultants like Frank Smith of the Private Corrections Institute, and only a couple residents who attended the relevant meetings and spoke up." Proposed distance from 'prison' was redlined by staff By MARK WAITE and MARK SMITH PVT Sep. 18, 2009 It all began a long time ago. Jan. 24, 2007 -- more than two and a half years ago -- the PVT printed on its front page a story titled "Town has no lock on fed prison plan." And so what has become a major issue regarding development, revenue, jobs and political viability, got under way. Over the intervening months, the PVT has been riddled with stories about the detention center, many on the front page and for which it won a number of Nevada Press Association awards in 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 20, 2009 (boomark / email).