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I was the outside organizer who helped residents of Sahuarita, Benson and Quartzite, Arizona as well as assisting with others in Weslaco and Italy, Texas, and also Lindsay, Oklahoma and Las Cruces, New Mexico, to successfully opposed for profit prisons and immigrant detention centers in their communities.

It was also I who exposed the California con man to whom the industrial development authority intended to turn over the Hardin prison, breaking the story regarding the gullibility of town officials and the regional press on September 10, 2009.

That facility has been completed and empty for 38 months, and the Authority has been in bond default for 28 months over the jail.

I've helped other communities around the nation resist the scams run by many other operators as well, including those of the Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) which has recently absorbed Cornell Companies, and those of various smaller corporations.