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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 25 2017, @09:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the follow-the-money dept.

Private prisons are making a comeback:

The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era plan to phase out the federal government's use of private prisons. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo Thursday to the Bureau of Prisons rescinding the Obama administration's Aug. 16 order advising the bureau not to renew any contracts with private prisons, according to a copy of the letter. Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had instructed officials to either not renew private prison contracts or substantially reduce the scope of such contracts to ultimately end the department's use of privately operated prisons altogether.

Who stands to benefit?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions's four-sentence memo rescinding Justice Department guidance to reduce the use of private prisons sent stock soaring for the two companies that dominate the industry, Geo Group and CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America). That's not necessarily because the memo will lead to a ramp-up in Geo- or CoreCivic-run federal prisons. As of December 2015, about 12 percent of all inmates in federal prisons were housed in private facilities, representing only 22,660 inmates. That certainly won't decline under Sessions, but he didn't promise to increase it substantially. "I direct the [Bureau of Prisons] to return to its previous approach," Sessions wrote. Anyway, DoJ renewed a pair of contracts with CoreCivic despite the now-scuttled order, so it's unclear if the status quo ever stopped.

Also at CNN Money.

Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring of Contract Prisons (August 2016).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @03:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @03:38PM (#471878)

    Hillary charismatic? Please. Trump is the charismatic douchbg, hillary is the aloof ice queen who couldn't fake sincerity and charisma to save her life. Have YOU learned about the rise of Hitler? Cause I ha e, and it is eerily similar to Trump. Maybe you're too old, brain and memory playing tricks on you?? I guess we'll have to double our prison population, have a few "incidents" in border camps, then maybe you'll start catching on.

    The main difference between Trump and Hitler? Trump is more concerned with money, his handlers are the one to watch out for. And the world is a bit different, harder to pull off the straight evil of the Nazis.

    But hey, ithurts your feels to compare Trump to Hitler so we'll all ignore the most compelling historical example of a populist fear monger. Yup, getting right on that forgetful train to suffering town.