for-profit prisons

Action: Arizona Private Prison K

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The American Friends Service Committee (Arizona) was denied a temporary restraining order to halt the Arizona Department of Corrections from awarding contracts for new private prisons. The Dept. of Corrections has said it would award contracts immediately. AFSC has also filed an injunction to halt the award of contracts. The…

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Prison “Task Force”

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According to the New York Law Journal, there have been 266 documented DNA exonerations nationwide, since DNA was first used over 20 years ago to exonerate innocent persons. In 2009, a Justice Task Force was created by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the State of New York, to help address…

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