Maui community leaders discuss proposed state spending $235 million on 834 bed prison in heart of Maui. Discussed are: overcrowding in current jail, alternatives to incarceration such as substance abuse treatment, sentencing reform, funding of innovative probation and parole programs, Private, for profit prisons, such as those run by Corrections Corporation of America. Also covered is audit of CCA, rape and murder of prisoners in private prisons, and profits to CCA shareholders. Panel: March 16, 2010 Kihei Community Center.

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