Awesome news, and yet another reason to vote for Democrats*:
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Originally Posted by The Washington Post
The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials 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.”
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*I'm sure there are Democrats on the wrong side of this, but with Democrats in control of the Presidency and at least one house of Congress, nobody will be able to block it.