Friday, August 19, 2016

FEDS TO STOP USE OF PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT PRISONS

By Bob Walsh

Sally Yates, a Deputy Attorney General, has announced that the Federal Bureau of Prisons will phase-out its use of private prisons for housing federal prisoners due to the fact that the private facilities are less secure, more trouble-prone and offer fewer programs for prisoners.

Right now the feds house about 12% of their population, somewhat more than 22,000 criminals, in private prisons. A large portion of those prisoners are illegal aliens being held pending deportation.

The privateers are objecting, as one might expect. They assert that comparing the prisoners held in their facilities and those held in the more traditional prisons is like comparing apples to oranges.

The feds are not planning on cancelling any existing contracts but are planning on phasing out renewal of those contracts over the next five years. I am confident the union for the BOP correctional officers will be highly grateful. I am also confident the corporations who get head money from the feds for their operations will scream like mashed cats to their pet congressmen and senators, who may also object to the BOP actions.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Private prisons are a joke and always have been. They should be outlawed.