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Will DHS Follow DOJ's Lead in Booting Private Prisons?

August 22, 2016 (1 min read)

Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, Aug. 18, 2016 - "The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will stop outsourcing federal prisons to private prison companies after their current contracts expire. But that doesn’t mean the federal government is actually ending private prisons. The DOJ has internally instructed officials to decline to renew contracts or “substantially reduce” their scope with the ultimate goal of ending the department’s use of privately-operated, for-profit prisons. While the decision will affect 13 federal prisons currently operated by private companies, the bulk of federal private prisons aren’t run by DOJ. In fact, the industry’s biggest client is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a separate agency that relies on private prisons to hold immigrants, often in appalling and unconstitutional conditions."