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Bonds Used to Finance Private Prisons, Jails Turn into Junk

The promise of safe, humane, and less costly prisons has been used for decades by the private prison industry to sell its products. As prison populations skyrocketed, local, state and federal governments became convinced that financing and building more and more correctional facilities was the way to go. So did investors, who picked up municipal

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