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State 'Exports' Ease Prison Overcrowding —At a Cost

Inmates shipped to long-distance exile

By Heather McPherson, Newser User

Posted Jul 31, 2007 12:56 PM CDT

(Newser) – States struggling with prison overcrowding are exporting inmates across borders to serve terms in far-flung private institutions, the New York Times reports. Thousands of prisoners from Hawaii are held in Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Kentucky. California plans to send 8,000 prisoners out of state.... Read full story »

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