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struggle4progress

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Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:25 PM Feb 2017

Admin rescinds plan to reduce private prison use

BY LYDIA WHEELER - 02/23/17 04:56 PM EST

... 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 ...


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320915-trump-admin-rescinds-plan-to-reduce-private-prisons

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Admin rescinds plan to reduce private prison use (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
Sessions will be arresting millions of pot smoking liberals Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. Sessions will be arresting millions of pot smoking liberals
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:26 PM
Feb 2017

and putting them in private prisons that Sessions and Fuckface have stock in.

America was done on election day.

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