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Alabama gov seeks 3 private built mega prisons, names sites

by Associated Press
| September 3, 2020 3:03 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's governor announced plans Thursday to move forward with state leasing of three privately built mega prisons that would begin construction next year, in what she described as a step toward overhauling an understaffed and violence-plagued prison system beset by years of federal criticism.

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