The executive order, signed alongside three others as part of an effort to address racial inequality, largely returns the department to the policy adopted under the Obama administration.
“To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the federal government's reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” Biden wrote in the order.
The order directs DOJ not to renew any of the contracts with private prisons that house federal inmates, roughly 14,000 out of the 2 million people incarcerated in America.
Criminal justice reform advocates say the move is an important first step in reducing reliance on private prisons, which critics argue have little accountability and whose models are incompatible with efforts to rehabilitate offenders....
The Hill
Biden directs DOJ to phase out use of private prisons
Rebecca Beitsch
Rebecca Beitsch
Yay!
ReplyDeleteNext: phase out the policy of sending people to jail for non-violent offenses.
A fantastic thing!
ReplyDeleteNow, how about housing non-criminals?
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They're executive orders. That means they can easily be overturned by the next administration in less than 4 years. So basically they're just temporary measures. Until laws or amendments are implemented...
ReplyDeleteIt's been almost a month and the grifter has yet to be arrested for inciting an insurrection against the United States. What kind of shit-show are you guys running there anyways?
Biden is responsible for filling America's prisons. He's trying to repent!
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