Sharon Dolovich

professor of law, faculty director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program

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Professor and faculty director at the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program

Sharon Dolovich on KCRW

Prisons have long relied on inmate labor, usually paying them very little or not at all. Next week, voters in five states will decide whether to prohibit that practice.

Slavery on the ballot: Will voters say no to prisoner labor?

Prisons have long relied on inmate labor, usually paying them very little or not at all. Next week, voters in five states will decide whether to prohibit that practice.

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The incoming Mayor of Adelanto, on Highway 395 in the Mojave Desert, says three existing private prisons give the town the “stigma of a prison city.”

For-Profit Prisons in California’s High Desert

The incoming Mayor of Adelanto, on Highway 395 in the Mojave Desert, says three existing private prisons give the town the “stigma of a prison city.”

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The overcrowding of California’s state prisons led Governor Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency late last year .

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The overcrowding of California’s state prisons led Governor Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency late last year .

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