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| Justice Department to stop using private prisons |
| By rollingout.com |
| Published: 08/19/2016 |
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The Justice Department’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced plans to end its use of private prisons in a memo instructing officials to either decline to renew or substantially reduce the scope of contracts with private prison operators, citing a critical report that private prisons are less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government. “They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” Yates wrote. The report concluded that privately operated facilities incurred more safety and security incidents, such as assaults on both inmates and staff, than those run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. One example of such an incident involved 250 inmates who were upset about low-quality food and medical care in a May 2012 riot at the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi. There were 20 people injured, and a correctional officer was killed. Read More. |
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