Now that order has been restored at the Adams County Correctional Center after weekend rioting saw one prison guard killed and 16 other prison personnel and three inmates injured, perhaps it's time to ask how and why Mississippi got into the private prison business.
Politically, it's a long story.
When the smoke cleared, a prison spokesperson told Mississippi taxpayers that the 2,567-bed prison near Natchez houses adult male illegal immigrants who had come back into the U.S. after being deported...
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