For-profit prisons should be a thing of the past
The decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to forge ahead with federal use of for-profit prisons is dangerously ill advised. Private detention and prison facilities for juveniles and adults have failed.
The Obama administration wisely issued guidance to reduce for-profit incarceration in the federal corrections system. Rescinding that guidance in favor of returning to the use of private prisons is bad policy for two main reasons.
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