TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 27, 2021

This week, the Biden administration directed the U.S. Justice Department to end its reliance on private prisons, the Associated Press reports. The executive order asks the attorney general not to renew contracts with privately-operated detention facilities. About 14,000 of the nation’s 152,000 federal inmates are housed at privately-managed facilities. Separately, the federal Bureau of Prisons already has stopped renewing some private prison contracts. Also of interest, the order does not affect the use of privately-run immigrant detention centers.