A FREE PRESS
SPECIAL REPORT
September - October 1997

Focus on Prisons
Three perspectives on the expansion prison industry

Business Behind Bars

• The real drive behind prison labor.
  
  by Paul Wright

If You Build It, They Will Come

• Civil commitment centers for sexual predators venture onto shady judicial ground.
  
  by Dan Pens

America Does Not Need Capital Punishment

• An inmate on death row writes of how the death penalty undermines society's values.
  
  by Michael B. Ross, Death Row, Northern Correctional Institute, Connecticut

Additional Resource:
Private Employers at Prisons in Washington State

• A list of some of the companies utilizing prison labor locally.
  
  by Free Press staff

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