Physical Mail Could Be Eliminated at Federal Prisons
A pilot program initiated under Trump converts mail to electronic scans. Biden hasnât reversed it, and critics call it abusive and harmful to inmates and families.
In his first-week blitz of executive actions, Joe Biden
directed the Justice Department to not renew federal contracts with the private prison industry. â[W]e must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Governmentâs reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,â the order stated.
But the profit motive will still exist in the federal prison system, even after private prison operations contracts are exhausted. Food, medicine, telecommunications, banking, and practically every other service for incarcerated people are almost entirely privatized, through a