The video below was orignally produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08. I work with this program as an independent journalist covering issues in Tennessee. The original post can be seen here. -DUSTIN OGDIN

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Recently, the New York Times reported that 1 in 99 American adults are behind bars, our country's highest rate ever. I decided to do some research about the role private prisons play in the economics and politics of this development. Watch the video below

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