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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Quotation
Prisons provide few jobs and, in some cases, even impede local job growth. And the reallocation of public resources that accompanied their construction has tended to limit the role of community colleges in local job creation, as well.
— Gregory Hooks, professor of sociology at Washington State University. Researchers at WSU have found that prison privatization can impede job growth.

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