The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it plans to stop contracting with for-profit prison companies, a decision that will affect some 20,000 federal inmates. The decision was outlined in a memo from U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who concluded that for-profit prisons “compare poorly” to the government-run facilities. “They simply do not provide […]
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