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From Sentencing Law and Policy, word of this upcoming installment of PBS' POV series, "Prison Town, USA":

What happens when a struggling rural community tries to revive its economy by inviting prisons in? The story of four families living in a modern-day prison town, as told in "Prison Town, USA," is a riveting look at one of the most striking phenomena of our times: a prison-building and incarceration boom unprecedented in American history...

...(A)n article called "An American Seduction" by Joelle Fraser (download a PDF file of the article)... very vividly captured what the town feels like. People in Susanville say it's a world of cops and cons...

Watch the trailer.

I knew someone who spent some formative years in Susanville; how the place has changed.