California state legislature votes to ban for-profit private prisons, including some facilities used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
to ban for-profit private prisons, including some facilities used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The bill, which must be signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in order to take effect, would ban new contracts with private prison facilities in California starting next year, and would phase out their use entirely by 2028. It would also prohibit the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from imprisoning people at for-profit facilities outside of the state.
Newsom’s office declined to say whether he will sign the bill, but the governor has previously signaled his support for abolishing private prisons.
A spokesperson for the GEO Group, a for-profit prison company with dozens of facilities in California, said,"Unfortunately, AB 32 works against the state’s Proposition 57 anti-recidivism goals approved by the voters," referring to a ballot proposition passed in 2016 to reduce recidivism in the state.
As of June, an estimated 2,222 people incarcerated by the state of California were held in for-profit facilities, according to statistics obtained by
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