The Clinton Administration helped set up the private prison system.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/128097594

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1. Absolutely did and still sends big checks to Hillary's campaign ....

and she still supports mandatory minimum sentences, three strike laws, capital punishment, privatization of prisons.

"Lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton….Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the Clinton campaign, bringing in $44,859 in contributions in a few short months. Sullivan is also a registered lobbyist for the Geo Group, a company that operates a number of jails, including immigrant detention centers, for profit. As we reported yesterday, fully five Clinton bundlers work for the lobbying and law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in America, paid Akin Gump $240,000 in lobbying fees last year. The firm also serves as a law firm for the prison giant, representing the company in court….The Geo Group, in a disclosure statement for its investors, notes that its business could be “adversely affected by changes in existing criminal or immigration laws, crime rates in jurisdictions in which we operate, the relaxation of criminal or immigration enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction, sentencing or deportation practices, and the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by criminal laws or the loosening of immigration laws.”"

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

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2. Wonder how many residents of South Carolina are in such prisons; and have been since the

1990s?