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Friday, August 19th, 2016

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

Author:     Matt Zapotosky and Chico Harlan
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     August 18 at 6:35 PM
 Link: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
Stephan:   Here is some excellent news about the American Gulag. Anyone with an IQ above their shoe size should have been able to predict that when you run prisons for profit all manner of nasty things are sure to follow. That no one seems to have been able to do that is a story in itself, but they didn't. Now though the outcome data is so appalling that it is clear private for-profit prisons are a bad idea, and the DOJ has done the right thing. Here is the story.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department officials Thursday to end its use of private prisons. Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department officials Thursday to end its use of private prisons.
Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP

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. (emphasis added)

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.”

“They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” Yates wrote.

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2 Comments

  1. Beth Alexander on Friday, August 19, 2016 at 8:18 am

    Link to the full article has been updated

  2. Rev. Dean on Friday, August 19, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    It’s about time the USA came to it’s senses about this “incarceration-slavery” issue as I call it. The facts have been there since the beginning of the transition as anyone who reads SR regularly. It is a very good start toward cleaning up our mass incarceration hysteria.