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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

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Leigh Touchton

Valdosta NAACP branch voted last night to oppose the private prison approved by VLCIA. We don't need more prisons, and they do not improve economic standards in any community in which they have been located. There is a safety burden upon the community, there are human rights abuses, and the focus should be on saving the state money by rehabilitation of non-violent offenders rather than mass incarceration. When America has 5% of the world's population but incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners, this is unacceptable. In North Carolina, private prisons have put local furniture manufacturers out of business because they cannot compete with the prison's slave labor. These are not sustainable and it's no mystery why most of the large Christian denominations in America oppose them.

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