Jeff Sessions reverses policy on private prisons
Feb 24, 2017 12:30:35 GMT
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Post by benson on Feb 24, 2017 12:30:35 GMT
Jeff Sessions Reverses Obama-Era Policy That Curtailed DOJ’s Private Prison Use
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates “changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.”
A Justice Department spokesman said Sessions’ memo “directs the Bureau of Prisons to return to its previous approach to the use of private prisons,” which would “restore BOP’s flexibility to manage the federal prison inmate population based on capacity needs.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-private-prisons-sessions_us_58af529ce4b0a8a9b780669a?2hq0n9sbn3n0fi529&
rebeldems.com/thread/562/sessions-reverses-policy-curtailed-private
For-profit prisons will need prisoners, sounds like a perverse incentive.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates “changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.”
A Justice Department spokesman said Sessions’ memo “directs the Bureau of Prisons to return to its previous approach to the use of private prisons,” which would “restore BOP’s flexibility to manage the federal prison inmate population based on capacity needs.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-private-prisons-sessions_us_58af529ce4b0a8a9b780669a?2hq0n9sbn3n0fi529&
rebeldems.com/thread/562/sessions-reverses-policy-curtailed-private
For-profit prisons will need prisoners, sounds like a perverse incentive.
