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[The Washington Post, August 18, 2016]
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">BY Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post&nbsp;</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials&nbsp;concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or &ldquo;substantially reduce&rdquo; the contracts&rsquo; scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is &ldquo;reducing &mdash; and ultimately ending &mdash; our use of privately operated prisons.&rdquo;</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">&ldquo;They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department&rsquo;s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,&rdquo; Yates wrote.</p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?utm_term=.86832bac22a8">MORE&gt;&gt;</a></p>