Alex Friedmann spent six years in a Tennessee prison run by the world’s largest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America. During his sentence Friedmann sued CCA, alleging the company retaliated against him for critical comments made to the press. Now an editor at Prison Legal News, Friedmann has found that Gus Puryear, general counsel for CCA, has been nominated to the federal bench, despite a record of only two federal trials. If still confirmed, Puryear would oversee dozens of criminal cases a year, potentially sentencing defendants to private prisons run by his former employer. Friedmann, ever vigilant, is organizing opposition to the appointment. (AP, Mother Jones, Corpwatch)
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