Justice Department memo announcing announcing the end of its use of private prisons

Sat, 2016-08-20 19:31 +0000 — Posted by CCJR Staff

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed officials in a memo Thursday to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”