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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.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 21 2019, @10:16PM
Imprisoning the homeless would be doing them favors, the well-behaving ones would learn job skills, and as long as the imprisonment of the homeless would be giving them 3 hots and a cot and placing them into a different and more productive context than punishment for criminal behavior, where they can't do drugs and booze, let's try it. But homelessness as an ill of society and described to America at large is 99% a problem of San Francisco, Los Angles, and New York City.
It's really a problem of affordable housing, but when a Jew or Chink with dirty money can sell a 200 square-foot shack for two-million dollars, don't bet on that problem being resolved anytime soon.