{"id":131307,"date":"2016-08-18T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/phasing-out-the-for-profit-private-prison-industry-at-the-federal-level-at-least.html"},"modified":"2016-08-18T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:50:56","slug":"phasing-out-the-for-profit-private-prison-industry-at-the-federal-level-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/phasing-out-the-for-profit-private-prison-industry-at-the-federal-level-at-least.html","title":{"rendered":"Phasing out the for-profit private prison industry — at the Federal level, at least"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making profit off of jailing people is inherently inefficient, demonstrably corrupting, and ethically suspect. If we, as a society, believe that an individual should be incarcerated, we, as a society, should do it, not bid it out to the lowest bidder<\/del> corporation with the biggest lobbying budget.<\/p>\n

So hearing that the Dept. of Justice agrees and will begin getting out of private prison contracting for federal inmates (especially as federal prison populations are diminishing) is, to me, a very, very good thing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/08\/18\/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons\/<\/a><\/p>\n

'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."'<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Making profit off of jailing people is inherently inefficient, demonstrably corrupting, and ethically suspect. If we, as a society, believe that an individual should be incarcerated, we, as a society, should do it, not bid it out to the lowest bidder corporation with the biggest lobbying budget. 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