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For-Profit Prisons Are Bad, But the Drug War Is the Problem
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Critics of for-profit prisons have a point. But they’re just a symptom of the over-criminalization epidemic that started with government.
Lucy Steigerwald
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Mar. 9 2015
5:15AM EDT
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