Before Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/deporting-us-citizens-name-compassion went on to champion what would become the state's controversial immigration bill, he held a closed-door meeting with state legislators and corporate executives at a Washington hotel. At this meeting, the 50 or so people in the room—all members of the "conservative, free-market orientated, limited-government" American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home—drafted and unanimously voted on model legislation that would become "almost word for word, Arizona's immigration law." According to an NPR investigation , several representatives of the country's largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America http://www.correctionscorp.com/, were among them. Over the past several months, NPR scoured campaign finance reports, corporate records and lobbying documents to gauge how deeply the private prison industry was involved in passing Arizona's immigration bill.
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