Biden orders end of federally run private prisons

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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-prisons-coronavirus-pandemic-c8c246f00695f37ef2afb1dd3a5f115e

President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role government has played in implementing discriminatory housing policies.

In remarks before signing the order, Biden said the U.S. government needs to change “its whole approach” on the issue of racial equity. He added that the nation is less prosperous and secure because of the scourge of systemic racism.

“We must change now,” the president said. “I know it’s going to take time, but I know we can do it. And I firmly believe the nation is ready to change. But government has to change as well.”

Biden rose to the presidency during a year of intense reckoning on institutional racism in the U.S. The moves announced on Tuesday reflect his efforts to follow through with campaign pledges to combat racial injustice.

[poli-junkie]

1. Yes!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. That headline makes no sense.

The DOJ contracts with private prisons to incarcerate people. (Other agencies -- such as Homeland Security -- do as well, and this order does not affect them.) These people will now be moved to state-run prisons. No one will be freed because of this.

[OregonBlue]

12. Ever expanding "private prisons" incentivize expanded incarceration and they have much less

accountability than state or federally run prisons. The end game for private prisons is profit, not rehabilitation.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Private prisons are the way they are because they are an offshoot of public prisons.

The end game for public prisons is also not rehabilitation.

[Tommymac]

13. Private FOR PROFIT Prisons are on the Stock Market. They need more prisoners to make $$$$$$$

They give a fuck about prisoner rights. They need more non-violent offenders in prison.

For example, private prisons provide help desk analysts for a lot of companies.

The analysts make peanuts compared to their non incarcerated brethren.

It is all about $$$$, not punishment or rehabilitation.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Public prisons need prisoners so they make money for the state, through cheap labor,

jobs and votes for underserved areas, and buying/selling services such as communications and food. As with private prisons, it's all about the money, not rehabilitation.

[Tommymac]

16. Difference is We The People run and control Public Prisons.

Different motivation.

Reforms can be made since We can fire the crooks running them.

Much harder to control stinking corrupt Private Prison Corporations who ONLY care about $$$$.

Sorry, you will never convince me Private FOR PROFIT prisons are a good thing.

They are pure Jim Crow and promote systemic racism in the name of the almighty $.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I'm not saying private prisons are a good thing. I'm saying public prisons are just as shitty,

that about 10 percent of incarcerated people are in private prisons, that all prisons promote systemic racism in the name of the almighty dollar, and that the system cannot be reformed.

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

[Blue Owl]

4. K&R

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Joe you out did yourself

Bout time those torture houses got shut the fuck down.

Fuck the ceo's no one is entitled to have a business and some businesses exist to abuse people and the private prison system is a charnel house of trauma. Shut them down,revoke thier charters and make is so prisons will never be run for profit again..

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. This EO does nothing to free anyone or shut down any private prison.

All prisons are houses of trauma, and states profit off the ones they run.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Put a bunch of sociopaths and narcissists

Mix them in with the mentally ill traumatized people,throw in a shitload if people in prison for bullshit..it does not take the long for toxic authoritarian guards and money to turn it into another stanford prison experiment.

[EX500rider]

8. Have you been to any prison's?

When my GF did 2 years in Fla first she was in the state run prison outside Ocala and it was a medieval nightmare, when she was transferred to the private one in Quincy outside Tallahassee she was SO happy, it was so much nicer and better run and modern, it looked like a college campus when I visited her.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. No never been in prison

But I know people who have been in prison.

Some came out with full blown ptsd.

[Turin_C3PO]

17. State prisons are horrible.

But *most* private prisons are even worse. There's a reason most Democrats want to do away with them.

[OregonBlue]

19. Agreed.

[UTUSN]

11. K&R