Prison Voices, Episode 1: Private Prisons
The ACLU's National Prison Project has released a report about the private prison industry. In this podcast, we'll be hearing from an expert on private prisons, Alex Friedmann. A former prisoner who served 10 years in Tennessee prisons, Friedmann is now the associate editor for Prison Legal News and the President of the Private Corrections Institute, a non-profit watchdog group that opposes for-profit prison.
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