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6: The Prison Sweepstakes

Motive by WBEZ Chicago

May 12, 202200:41:56Society & Culture

In the 1980s Illinois leaders held a competition, where rural towns competed to “win” prisons and the jobs that come with them.

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6: The Prison Sweepstakes is an episode from Motive by WBEZ Chicago. In the 1980s Illinois leaders held a competition, where rural towns competed to “win” prisons and the jobs that come with them. The episode was published on May 12, 2022 a...

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In the 1980s Illinois leaders held a competition, where rural towns competed to “win” prisons and the jobs that come with them.

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