H R 1084 The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act Calm H R 1147 The Local Community Radio Act Of 2009 And H R 1133 The Family Telephone Connection Protection Act Of 2009

H.R. 1084, the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) ; H.R. 1147, the Local Community Radio Act of 2009 ; and H.R. 1133, the Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2009 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congre

The U.S. corrections system (CS) has gone through an unprecedented expansion during the last few decades. At the end of 2008, 2.3 million adults were in state, local, or fed. custody, with another 5.1 million on probation or parole. Of that total, 9% were in fed. custody. Globally, the U.S. has 5% of the world¿s population but 25% of its prisoners. Contents of this report: (1) CS Sector; (2) U.S. CS; (3) Incarceration Trends; (4) Prison Employment: Unions; (5) Prison Construction; Rural Prisons; Cost and Overcrowding; Financing; (6) Private Sector: Private Prison Co.; The Private Prison Industry: Corrections Corp. of America; Geo Group; Cornell Co.; Other Private Firms; Phone Service; (7) Prisons as Drivers of Econ. Development. Illus.

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