Japanese Americans call for closure of Tacoma s immigration prison
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(Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, NC is a private contract prison housing federal inmates, Photo: The GEO Group, Inc.)
President Biden has directed the Department of Justice to end private federal prison contracts in an executive order, a promise he made during his campaign.
“To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” the executive order noted systemic racism in the mass incarceration and stated that decarcerating the prison population is a priority.
There are 14,122 inmates less than 10% of the federal prison population in 12 contracted federal private prisons nationwide. The one in North Carolina, the 1,450-bed Rivers Correctional Institution, is a low-security, all-male facility in the Hertford County town of Winton, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.