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Arkansas Board Approves New Prison Despite Public Opposition
The Arkansas Board of Corrections has approved a 815-acre site for a new prison that will hold 3,000 inmates in Charleston, despite public opposition from residents. What Was the Proposed Plan? The board voted on Friday to accept the land that the state had purchased for nearly $3 million to build a prison that will […]
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California Votes to Keep Forced Prison Labor
On November 5, Californians rejected a ballot measure banning forced prison labor, voting instead to keep the practice legal in state prisons. Proposition 6, which moved to eliminate the “constitutional provision allowing involuntary servitude for incarcerated persons,” is projected to fail, the Associated Press reported. With 72 percent of the vote counted, 54 percent of […]
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