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Houston's Jackson-Lee pushes for transparency for private prisons
Fri Jul 3 15:05:45 2009 CST
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By Jennifer Peebles
For those of you who have been following our stories on private prison contractor Geo Group: U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, a Houston Democrat, has introduced a bill in Congress that would make private prisons subject to the federal Freedom of Information Act if they are holding federal prisoners under contract with Uncle Sam. Read more at Private Prison Watch, and keep up with the bill via GovTrack.Us.

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