Ohio Shouldn't Gamble on Private Prisons

Published May 9, 2013

Ohio shouldn't gamble on private prisons

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The Michigan Youth Correctional Facility in Baldwin was ranked as one of the state's most inefficient and costly institutions when it was operated by Geo Group Inc. of Florida. … It also had far more violent incidents than other maximum-security …
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ACLU-NC on Senate Bill 594: 'Cruel, costly, and blatantly unconstitutional…'

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If a citizen truly has a substance abuse problem and needs help, the state should help to get that person into treatment – not simply kick them and their children off of crucial support services. Current law allows the state to make drug treatment a …
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Methadone treatment raises questions about profit motive, patient care

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But at the Daytona Methadone Treatment Center, more than 100 people stand in line for their daily dose of methadone, a drug that helps quell cravings for heroin and oxycodone. The orange glows from cigarettes puncture the darkness as a security guard …
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