Posted on 08/18/2016 8:40:55 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”
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The bloated and mean for-profit prison industry is being replaced by bloated and gentle gubmint-run “correctional” facilities.
The Koch boys won’t like this news.
Better give Trump a Billion
Planning ahead for when Obama mass pardons his homies and the DOJ no longer needs the capacity?
That and his federalizing of the police.
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