Thursday, August 18, 2016

U.S. to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates

NYT

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said on Thursday that it would begin to phase out the use of private for-profit prisons to house federal inmates. The Bureau of Prisons had resorted to such prisons to ease overcrowding as the incarceration rate soared, but the number of federal inmates has been dropping since 2013.

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