Posted on 02/23/2017 5:38:23 PM PST by ColdOne
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons, reversing an Obama administration directive to phase out their use. Stock prices of major private prison companies rose at the news.
Sessions issued a memo replacing one issued last August by Sally Yates, the deputy attorney general at the time.
That memo, which followed a harshly critical government audit of privately run prisons, directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to begin reducing and ultimately end its reliance on contract facilities. Yates, in her announcement, said private facilities have more safety and security problems than government-run ones and were less necessary given declines in the overall federal prison population.
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I guess if we can’t kill them , cage them.
The country will need ever cell available as Trump and Sessions put all the criminal element behind bars.
Good. Build cheap federal prisons.
NO GOOD ever comes of the feds colluding with private enterprise when the feds provide the product, in this case prisoners.
I wouldn’t like it with dems, don’t like it now.
It reeks of crony capitalism.
Let’s not do the double standard thing now.
Guarantee in five or so years we’ll read about politicians pocketing huge sums that are somehow related to the private prisons.
Cheap federal prisons.
Good. Build cheap federal prisons.
NO GOOD ever comes of the feds colluding with private enterprise when the feds provide the product, in this case prisoners.
I wouldn’t like it with dems, don’t like it now.
It reeks of crony capitalism.
Let’s not do the double standard thing now.
Guarantee in five or so years we’ll read about politicians pocketing huge sums that are somehow related to the private prisons.
Cheap federal prisons.
...absolutely correct...it also is disgusting what makes the stock go up...more prisoners, more beds.
Ever hear of Fed Ex? UPS? Private business doing government work better and cheaper. Private prisons are no different.
I’m not a for-profit prison fan.
Can you not read?
The govt is supplying the prisoners.
Ever understand what someone writes?
I didn’t know the govt provided the mail to those companies /s
Can we just sell and convert HUD housing to prisons? It would save to cost of trials.
From my experience working for a public employees union in CA, the opposition to private prisons came from the prison guards union. Any law in CA regarding prisoners came from them. A beginner would make 100K a year and they had massive benefits and pensions. When I left five years ago the price of one prisoner was 46K per year, the same amount a family of four had to hit to be in a top tax bracket. Taxpayers had to pay top notch healthcare for the prisoners including things some people are morally opposed to.
so do you wonder why a lot of taxpayers prefer private prisons?
OK, but you better strongly regulate them and make sure of no corruption or they’ll be hell to pay.
We need to sub-contract our prison system to Brazil or Turkey.
Why haven’t ALL THE OBAMA appointees been fired at Justice.
Gotta have a place to put all those people caught smoking weed.
I believe we should strike a deal with Russia and send all our jail birds to Siberian gulags, money well spent, no escape, Russian hospitality
Private prisons are bad because their presence encourages liberal judges to send people there to fill up the spaces even if the ones sent away would be better left to a strict probation.
Don’t fight the fed. Learn to profit from them. I have owned GEO and CXW from time to time. Always made money. Just pick your price points.
There was a famous case in Scranton, PA where a judge was getting kickbacks from prisons for sending more people to those jails.
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