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The Prison Boom with Shannon Heffernan

You're Wrong About

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In 19 82, mount sterling, illinois was a town known for good deer hunting. It's now one of the most impoverished towns in America. People are moving away and not enough tax money is coming in to support basics like schools. Franzen came up with this idea of something called the prison sweepstakes. Small towns could compete to win prisons and all the jobs that came with them. But they're on entirely different sides of the equation.

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