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Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-hand with political influence

By Jon Collins | 09.26.11 | 8:00 am

A private prison company that was a longtime ALEC member has given millions of dollars to political campaigns. As a result, its influence, and its business, has grown.

AM.MN: Ice fishing, coffee on the dock, crashing into deer… ah, Minnesota!

By Chris Steller | 06.19.09 | 8:30 am

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Deer-crossing signs are headed for extinction because deer are everywhere — a danger to drivers now so ubiquitous that in his State of the State address this year, Gov. Pawlenty put “trading real-life stories of how