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The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.
In Corrections, Inc., American RadioWorks correspondent John Biewen investigates how unions, corporations, and law enforcement agencies all benefit from a full and expanding prison system, and how some of these vested interests work to influence sentencing and other law enforcement policies.
Corrections, Inc. won the Public Service Award in the 2002 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
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John Biewen is the audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He worked for Minnesota Public Radio for many years, covered the Rocky Mountain West for NPR News, then spent eight years as a correspondent with American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media. Biewen’s work has won many honors, including two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, and the Third Coast Festival's Radio Impact Award.
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