{"id":10747,"date":"2017-02-23T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:38:00","slug":"private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Prisons Back In Mix For Federal Inmates As Sessions Rescinds Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Christopher Dean Hopkins<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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New Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era memo that directed the Justice Department to reduce the use of private prisons<\/a>, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reports<\/p>\n

Sessions writes in the order that returning to the Bureau of Prisons’ earlier approach would provide flexibility.<\/p>\n

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“The memorandum changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system,” Sessions writes.<\/p>\n

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Outside companies currently house about 21,000 inmates for the Justice Department, the agency reports, down from a peak of 30,000. The overall federal prison population has been falling in recent years because of changes in how some low-level offenders are sentenced.<\/p>\n

In announcing a phasing out of private-prison use in August, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote that the outside companies’ facilities were less safe, more expensive, and “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs and resources.”<\/p>\n

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<\/div>\n

New Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era memo that directed the Justice Department to reduce the use of private prisons<\/a>, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reports<\/p>\n

Sessions writes in the order that returning to the Bureau of Prisons’ earlier approach would provide flexibility.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“The memorandum changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system,” Sessions writes.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Outside companies currently house about 21,000 inmates for the Justice Department, the agency reports, down from a peak of 30,000. The overall federal prison population has been falling in recent years because of changes in how some low-level offenders are sentenced.<\/p>\n

In announcing a phasing out of private-prison use in August, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote that the outside companies’ facilities were less safe, more expensive, and “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs and resources.”<\/p>\n

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