Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry. Full Story »

Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Memeorandum, Google News (Immigration), Slatest, NewsRack (Politics), Patrick McDermott (t), Umbreen Bhatti (t), Subramanya Sastry (f), David Fox (f), Mark Pegrum (f), Tiffany Hebb (f), Steven K Samra (f), Fabrice Florin (f), Jon Mitchell (f), Alex Williams (f)

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by Jon Mitchell - Nov. 4, 2010

Fantastic scoop. This should be huge national news. This is a slam-dunk case that special interests in the booming private prison industry drove the passage of Arizona's new immigration law.

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