TOM HUERKAMP: REQUIRED
READING
Dear
HCN,
Paul Larmer’s skillful account of Tom
Huerkamp’s magnificent struggle to hold prison expansion at bay in
Delta County (HCN, 6/26/95) ought to be required reading for every
county administrator in this country. If ever there was a classic
example of how dumb untended markets can be, it has been the rush
to incorporate prisons into the production-consumption continuum,
converting them into engines for assuring the economic survival of
rural communities.
John H.
Sherwood
Boulder,
Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Tom Huerkamp: required reading.
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