A Damning Federal Report Just Confirmed Our Worst Fears About Private Prisons

Federal prisons run by private prison companies aren't just less safe and less secure than than their publicly run counterparts. They're also inadequately supervised by the federal Bureau of Prisons, which has outsourced the incarceration of 12 percent of its inmates to three giant for-profit prison companies, while allowing gaps in oversight that endangered inmates and put their rights at risk. 

That's the takeaway from a damning new report by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General. The report, released Thursday, examined how the BOP monitored its contracts with three of the nation's largest private prison companies: Corrections Corporation of America, the GEO Group, and Management and Training Corporation. For $639 million, these corporations run the country's 14 private federal prisons, incarcerating around 22,660 people as of December—mainly low-security immigrants serving short sentences....
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