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DOJ Ending Use of Private Prisons: Will Decarceration Follow?

Truthout’s Maya Schenwar says the announcement won’t affect federal immigration detention centers or state prisons Story Transcript KIM BROWN, TRNN: Today the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it will phase out the federal use of private prisons. This decision follows an investigative report that the DOJ released last week, which found that conditions in […]