RURAL PRISONS

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Last updated 12/6/02

Often rural communities seek out a prison as an economic development tool. The impact on the local health care and secondary and tertiary health care systems has not been well investigated.

	Economic Development Digest: Does Crime Pay: Pros and Cons of Rural Prisons - http://www.nado.org/pubs/jul02.html
	Big Prisons and Small Towns - http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/pristown.htm
	Rural Prisons give towns boost - http://www.bowdoin.edu/studorgs/orient/2002-05-03/features01.htm
	FedGazette - Focus: Prisons - http://www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/fedgaz/02-01/index.cfm
	Rural Prisons: An Update - Rural Development Perspectives - http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdp/rdp296/rdp296d.pdf
	U.S. Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Prisons: National Insitutue of Corrections - http://www.bop.gov/rframe.html
	Prison Policy Initiative - http://www.prisonpolicy.org/articles/upr100701.shtml
	The Criminal Justice Initiative - http://www.soros.org/crime/pdf/cji_grant_soros-justice.pdf