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Chris Epps, the former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, was not his usual jovial self at his federal arraignment on 49 counts of alleged corruption last week.

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With the nation's largest private prison operators earning more than $3 billion in revenue, private-prison and government watchdogs say the opportunity for the brand of corruption alleged against Epps and ...

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