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I produced this video for MTV News (in March '08)where I contribute as a citizen journalist.

In March, the New York Times reported that 1 in 99 American adults are behind bars, our country's highest rate ever. I decided to do some research about the role private prisons play in the economics and politics of this development. This part one of a two part series

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