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tarheelsunc

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8. I don't really understand this from the prison group's side...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 06:32 PM

Feb 2013

Are they expecting to attract more customers? Or do they expect by getting their name out there, that more local governments will come to them for prison building?

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A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium [View all] dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 OP

Must read: Gail Collins, "Peculiar Naming Rights" frazzled Feb 2013 #1

good, I can use a laff... dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #4

If I were a student, I would be transferring in the fall ...and would not be quiet about it. n/t Earth_First Feb 2013 #2

The problem isn't the commercialization of sports ... SalviaBlue Feb 2013 #3

shouldn't be much longer before we start seeing advertisements.. frylock Feb 2013 #5

The nation is going to hell in a hand-basket, if anything for profit prisons should be illegal. Uncle Joe Feb 2013 #6

You're welcome, Joe. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #7

I don't really understand this from the prison group's side... tarheelsunc Feb 2013 #8

Maybe just a way to "normalize" them as a business? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #9

I didn't even know they existed until I had to post bond for a family member. MindPilot Feb 2013 #13

Your tax dollars at work :( MindPilot Feb 2013 #10

+1 HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11

But will the nearby University of Miami follow suit? KamaAina Feb 2013 #12

CCA is in negotiations at Penn State MindPilot Feb 2013 #15

I heard that their mascot is an Owl MindPilot Feb 2013 #14

**Groan**** dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #16