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yurbud

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Thu Aug 18, 2016, 04:09 PM Aug 2016

The Justice Department Is Going To Stop Using Private Prisons

Two truths here that conservatives and conservative Democrats hate to admit:1) government does some things better than the private sector and 2) privatizing government functions, giving taxpayer money to for-profit companies to provide government services, leads to corruption and less accountability.

If Democrats admitted this and started repeating it, they might start clear out the walking dead of the GOP.

WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department plans to stop using privately run prisons that typically house undocumented federal inmates following a report finding they are less safe than those that are federally run, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said Thursday.

Yates said the Justice Department’s goal is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons,” according to a memo Yates issued Thursday. The memo was first reported by The Washington Post.

“Private prisons served an important role during a difficult period, but time has shown that they compare poorly to our own Bureau facilities. 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,” Yates wrote in the memo.

Stock prices of the country’s two biggest private prison companies ― Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group ― nosedived by nearly 25 percent Thursday morning. Other big players in the industry ― including Emerald Correctional Management, Management & Training Corporation, Community Education Centers and LaSalle Southwest Corrections ― are privately held companies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/private-prisons-doj_us_57b5d5f0e4b034dc73260344?section=&
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