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Better use for billion
What's with the proposed super-size prison in Franklin County?
There are huge costs--communications, energy, roads, sewage, water, and workers besides design and construction. What are expenses for ecology and native people's concerns? Then there are ongoing budgets for a big facility employing many.
Arkansas suffers some of the nation's highest rates of jailing lawbreakers and then re-jailing them after their releases. Given these two historical trends, can our incarceration space ever........
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