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Jackson tourism site promotes jailhouse tours — are they profiting off prisons?

ExperienceJackson.com, a tourism website for Jackson, MI, gets one thing right. It reads in part: “Jackson owes almost 200 years’ worth of growth and success to something many people wouldn’t suspect: prisons.” The city is known for being home to Michigan State Prison, AKA Jackson State Prison — which was Michigan’s first penitentiary when it […]

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