In rural Colorado, the best paying job, and one of the most secure, may be working at the nearby prison. But in the towns of Brush andWalsenburg, those jobs are evaporating as privateprisons facilities close. These for-profit prisons are fairly new, built to house inmates that state prisons didn't have room for. ZacharyBarr's story begins in Brush.
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