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Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:50 PM Aug 2016

Another victory for incrementalism: private prisons

After about 6 years of department-level work to line this up, DoJ has announced its break from private prisons.

Contracts will not be renewed, and new contracts will not be sought.

This is the kind of quiet, heads-down, nose-to-the-grindstone shit that makes me love this administration so much.

It did not solve the problem overnight. Even with this announcement there will still be Federal prisoners in private prisons for another 5 years or so. But this was a definite, un-arguably positive change this administration has brought about.

Thanks, Obama.

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Another victory for incrementalism: private prisons (Original Post) Recursion Aug 2016 OP
That's huge news! There were huge hurdles to get this done. It'll get no play in the media... Squinch Aug 2016 #1
Good on O for this. I can't applaud him enough for ending this shameful, evil practice jack_krass Aug 2016 #2
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2016 #3
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