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 governments 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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“They need to pay for their incarceration.”
I seem to have a faint memory that the court has ruled against that idea.
“The govt is supplying the prisoners.”
You have a weird way of looking at how a human becomes a prisoner. No, the government isn’t “supplying” prisoners. Criminals are found guilty (or are awaiting sentencing) and as a result are prisoners. They exist. What to do, then? Have a government run entity or a government contracted private entity handle things. Which has a better chance of being less costly to the taxpayer while fulfilling all requirements set by the government itself? This isn’t rocket science.
BTW, since you posted to me twice I can only assume that you thought someone else response to you came from me. I certainly can read. Not so sure that you didn’t misread something.
Jeff....make Pres. Trump FIRE EVERY US ATTORNEY!!
It's backwards for society to pay to incarcerate the anti social.
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