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posted by martyb on Monday October 21 2019, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-else-they-will-send-you...-to-prison? dept.

California law bans for-profit, private prisons, immigration detention centers

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday [October 11] that would eliminate private, for-profit prisons, including those used for immigration detention, by 2028.

Starting on Jan. 2020, the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation won't be able to enter into or renew a contract with a private, for-profit prison to incarcerate people.

Operating a private immigration detention facility and incarcerating people in for-profit prisons will be prohibited after Jan. 2028, according to the newly signed law.

[...] The Adelanto Detention Facility, which is one of the nation's biggest privately-run immigration detention centers, will be phased out under the new law.

This past summer, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General released a report that found "egregious violations of detention standards" at the Adelanto Detention Facility, including "nooses in detainee cells, improper and overly restrictive segregation, and inadequate detainee medical care."

[...] GEO Group, a for-profit prison company with dozens of facilities in California including the Adelanto Facility, previously has stated that the bill "works against the state's Proposition 57 anti-recidivism goals approved by the voters," referring to a ballot proposition passed in 2016 to reduce the number of people who were re-incarcerated in the state.

The company reported revenues of $2.33 billion in 2018, up from $2.26 billion in 2017. The facilities have been criticized for employing immigrants for as little as $1 a day.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:50AM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:50AM (#910131) Journal

    The taxpayer is already footing the entire bill. It will continue to do so when privitized prisons go away. They may even end up paying LESS once they no longer have to cover corporate profits and CEO pay on top of the actual costs of running a prison. Less still when the perverse incentives to imprison more people longer go away.

    There are cases where outsourcing is cheaper, mostly involving specialized knowledge that's hard to come by or where a need is part time, but neither apply here. If the people of California want to actually save money on prisons, they'll need to look into non-custodial penalties wherever possible.

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