This video was originally produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08, where I contribute as an independent citizen journalist. Click here for that website.

Gus Puryear is the top attorney for the world's largest private prison company. He also belongs to a Nashville country club with allegedly discriminatory practices regarding women and, possibly, minorities. Will those two facts keep him from being a federal judge? One former prisoner and activist certainly hopes so.

-Dustin Ogdin

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