Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport

Eli Hager and Alysia Santo, Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport. The Marshall Project, 6 July 2016. This story was produced in collaboration with The New York Times. “Every year, tens of thousands of fugitives and suspects — many of whom have not been convicted of a crime — are entrusted to a handful of small private companies that specialize in state and local extraditions. A Marshall Project review of thousands of court documents, federal records and local news articles and interviews with more than 50 current or former guards and executives reveals a pattern of prisoner abuse and neglect in an industry that operates with almost no oversight.”

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The Secret Sharer: Is [Whistleblower] Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

Jane Mayer, The Secret Sharer: Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? The New Yorker, 23 May 2011. “Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency, faces some of the gravest charges that can be brought against [a U.S.] citizen.”

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