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Harley Lappin

Less than a month after retiring from his post as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Harley G. Lappin has been hired to a top positon at the nation’s largest private, for-profit prison contractor, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In a move that has gone virtually unnoticed by the press except on the business pages, Lappin, who had […]

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From BOP to CCA: Federal Prison Director Defects to Private Prison Company

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 7, 2011

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Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

May 19, 2011

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