The future of private prison companies did not look bright back in 2016, when the Department of Justice announced that the federal government would begin slowly reducing, and ultimately eliminating, its use of private prisons.
At the time, the DOJ said there was no evidence that these facilities saved money, and that private prisons had higher rates of health and safety concerns and prisoner mistreatment.
The horrifying conditions uncovered by Mother Jones at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana and by The Nation at Adams County helped push Barack Obama's Justice Department to move to end its use of private prisons.
In an effort to cut costs, for-profit prisons often hire fewer guards and less medical staff than state and federal prisons.
As a consequence, private prisons had 28 percent more inmate-on-inmate assaults and are more dangerous, according to a 2016 Justice Department report.
As with for-profit prisons that incarcerate Americans, the use of private prisons to detain asylum seekers and immigrants creates perverse incentives to continue and expand the practice.
Freedom of Information Act requests do not apply to private prisons, and ICE and CBP haven't been forthcoming with information on the extent of their partnerships with private corporations.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-making-money-from-the-border-crisis-private-prisons/
At the time, the DOJ said there was no evidence that these facilities saved money, and that private prisons had higher rates of health and safety concerns and prisoner mistreatment.
The horrifying conditions uncovered by Mother Jones at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana and by The Nation at Adams County helped push Barack Obama's Justice Department to move to end its use of private prisons.
In an effort to cut costs, for-profit prisons often hire fewer guards and less medical staff than state and federal prisons.
As a consequence, private prisons had 28 percent more inmate-on-inmate assaults and are more dangerous, according to a 2016 Justice Department report.
As with for-profit prisons that incarcerate Americans, the use of private prisons to detain asylum seekers and immigrants creates perverse incentives to continue and expand the practice.
Freedom of Information Act requests do not apply to private prisons, and ICE and CBP haven't been forthcoming with information on the extent of their partnerships with private corporations.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-making-money-from-the-border-crisis-private-prisons/
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