California Bans Private Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers
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October 14, 2019
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California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America’s largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into law on Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
The new law bars the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from entering into or renewing a contract with a private company to run a state prison after Jan. 1, 2020, unless needed to meet court-ordered inmate housing limits. It will ban California from incarcerating anyone in privately run facilities altogether from 2028.
The measure, which passed the California legislature last month, does not apply to privately owned prisons operated and staffed by the state corrections agency.
The new law bars the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from entering into or renewing a contract with a private company to run a state prison after Jan. 1, 2020, unless needed to meet court-ordered inmate housing limits. It will ban California from incarcerating anyone in privately run facilities altogether from 2028.
The measure, which passed the California legislature last month, does not apply to privately owned prisons operated and staffed by the state corrections agency.
By Steve Gorman | 11 Oct 2019
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