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VIDEO:  Part 2: Power, Politics, Prisons
 
 
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.
by  Dustin_TN  on Mar 19,2008
 
 
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Tags: election  Choose Or Lose  discrimination  Tennessee  jail  prison  Street Team '08  Dustin Ogdin  CCA  Corrections Corp. of America  Gus Puryear  private prisons  Alex Friedman  Belle Meade Country Club  Stefanie Lindquist 
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