Word: hardpan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resentful, nihilistic youth who see no future and no present worth the trouble. Prisons are the state's sole growth industry. "More prisons were being built in California," Barich writes, "than anywhere else in the world. Frequently, they were built on farmland stripped of its value, gone to ... hardpan. Corporate farmers, the titans of agribusiness, often sold the dead land to the state for a handsome score." Go West, young man, and get locked up. Or be a prison guard...