Offenders and Detainees: The New Cash Crop

This paper was writing during a course in Introduction to Corrections at Bellevue College. It takes a look at the use of commercial prisons throughout America.

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It hit Miguel Sevilla like a ton of bricks. Each click of the cuffs tightening their grip on his wrists brought forward another memory from when he was a teenager. Click, he squirms under the rusted metal fence and runs for cover in complete darkness. Click, spotlights erupt like miniature explosions. Click, voices h...