California's governor has signed a bill into law today that bans private, for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers in that state. Details from hereandnow:
A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his 'segregation cell' back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Facility, a private detention center operated by Florida-based GEO Group.
“It's really important to pass this bill because it protects the health, safety and welfare of Californians,” says Rob Bonta, the California assemblyman who wrote the bill. “And we know from study after study that in for-profit private prisons and detention centers, Californians are getting hurt.”to close private prisons, which federal and state governments grew to rely on as a result of tough-on-crime initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s, according to The Sentencing Project.
“The data is indisputable,” Bonta says. “It shows that they have less access to health care, higher levels of escape, higher levels of recidivism, lower staffing, less training for staff, higher numbers of assaults on staff. People have died in these facilities.”
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