Quote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...68cff5f78e

 

Personally I think this is fantastic news.  Hopefully states will follow suit.  

 

I'm not so sure that's a good idea.  Here's a couple of interesting quotes from the article posted where Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates contradicted herself.

 

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“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.

 

Then later in the article.

 

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Yates said it was “really hard to determine whether private prisons are less expensive”
and whether their closure would cause costs to go up, though she said officials did not anticipate having to hire additional Bureau of Prisons staff.

<p style="font-size:20px;font-family:Georgia;margin-left:auto;color:rgb(17,17,17);">“Bottom line, I’d also say, you get what you pay for,” Yates said.

 

So ending contracts with private prisons puts people out of work and it's really not known what the replacement cost is going to be.

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