President signs Executive Order to phase out private prisons
The new administration has been clear that they oppose the use of private prisons. We do to. Any industry that profits on the incarceration and lobbies for longer prison sentences and harsher penalties as a basis for increasing profitability, is sick.
Within one week of taking office, President Biden has signed an Executive Order to “Reform the Incarceration System”, which includes phasing out the use of private prisons to confine the currently 2 million people who are confined in federal prisons and detention centers.
Perhaps the most exciting language contained in the Executive Order was not the elimination of private prisons, but these statements,
- “There is broad consensus that our current system of mass incarceration imposes significant costs and hardships on our society and communities and does not make us safer.”
- “We must ensure that our Nation’s incarceration and correctional systems are prioritizing rehabilitation and redemption.”
- “Incarcerated individuals should be given a fair chance to fully reintegrate into their communities, including by participating in programming tailored to earning a good living, securing affordable housing, and participating in our democracy as our fellow citizens.”
Lets hope this is just the beginning.
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This order sure is upsetting a lot of people on this forum.
Yet no one can point to any language in it that harms registrants, or that they disagree with.
Y’all are just running out of things to be mad about, I think.
Has this forum become an outrage machine?
Agreed – this is a GOOD thing. If anything we can cite to the President’s objectives of rehabilitation and not retribution as well as successful reintegration when crafting our own statements.
For someone who claims executive orders are for dictators, he sure signed a lot of them in a week’s time. I believe he’s reached 40 by now. And I personally don’t give a damn about “private prisons”, the important part is right here;
“Incarcerated individuals should be given a fair chance to fully reintegrate into their communities, including by participating in programming tailored to earning a good living, securing affordable housing, and participating in our democracy as our fellow citizens.”
NO ONE WANTS TO APPLY THIS TO ANYONE WITH A SEX OFFENSE. PERIOD. I told you people in these comments MONTHS AGO that it doesn’t matter if it’s democrats or republicans, NO ONE IS GOING TO FORGIVE SEX OFFENSES no matter how much either side clutches their bible. Face the reality. Sex is DANGEROUS! Maybe when the communist democrats take away the right to bear arms, they’ll also take away the right to bear your own male anatomy ‘down below’. Because SEX IS DANGEROUS!!!! It’s worse than murder for frigsakes!
I’m so fed up with this crap.
When the subject of sex offenders hits the fan what is Biden gonna do,, Reporter asks Biden, what about the sex offenders that are locked up in these prisons? Are you gonna just turn them lose? Biden stutters for a few and then says something like Oh no of coarse not. Biden knows all to well if he sides with the sex offenders life as he knows it is over. The wrath will come at him from all sides and he knows it. We sex offenders got’s a better chance of seeing god.
This has nothing to do with “sex offenders”. Why are people trying to conflate this?
This is about private prisons. No one has said anything about releasing the people from just those prisons. If a private prison is closed, anyone who still needs to serve a sentence simply needs to be moved to a different prison.
As others have already said, for-profit prisons absolutely should not exist. They are immoral. I would keep extending that concept to anything related to punishment from the legal system (e.g. there should not be for-profit probation companies). Earning profits from imprisoning people is immoral.
Of course, even if a function is completely run by big government, there is a lot of scabbing for the $$$$$. That can be controlled to some degree though. And they aren’t really making a “profit”. Some are sort of, in that they are way overpaid.
The Hit Lists are very similar. I live in Georgia and the sheriffs here will support just about anything that drags $$$$$ into their organizations. A lot of it ends up directly in the overpaid sheriffs’ pockets. They are grossly overcompensated in Georgia. All good Americans should be fighting every day to keep money away from big government and especially their law enforcement criminals.
This has nothing to do with “sex offenders”. Why are people trying to conflate this?
Dear Mr Allen,
Whenever there is talk about anything to do with prison, prison reform or opportunities for inmates after leaving prison, the first thing everyone is worried about are the pesky “sex offenders”. You have to be living under a rock to not have heard this “concern” pop up ANY TIME there is talk about ANY KIND of prison reform.
Will Allen wrote: “This has nothing to do with ‘sex offenders’. Why are people trying to conflate this?” This has everything to do with sex offenders because of the language found in Biden’s Executive Order on the private prisons the feds use to house inmates. Nobody here is conflating anything about our cause.
It would be such fair pay back for this “person” to get to do some time for DUI in one of his own sponsored private prisons. The one consolation we all have is that one day he and his daughter will be held accountable. As long as they continue condemning people around them, that day will not be pretty for them.