California Shutting Down Private Prisons
Gavin newsom signed a bill friday that will end the use of private prisons and privately run immigration detention facilities.
California shutting down private prisons. Pangea clients and grassroots community advocates are the visionaries behind it. The use of private prisons in california has helped the state adhere to a may 23 2011 supreme court ruling that upheld a 2009 three judge panel s federal court order requiring the state to. California to shut down private prisons and immigrant detention centers california gov. On friday october 11th our communities won an important fight.
The california department of corrections and rehabilitation contracts with the florida based geo group to run four private prisons in kern and san bernardino counties that can hold up to 2 400. California will work to end the use of private prisons within its borders including for profit immigrant detention facilities under a law signed friday by gov. The fight to end private prisons from profiting off of people of color the poor and those who have been failed by this system. Along with cca the other companies that run federal prisons in the u s.
Shrink prisons to help cut budget gov. Are the geo group and management and training corporation mtc. This is an archived article and the information in. Gavin newsom is proposing to significantly shrink the footprint of california s juvenile and adult prison system.
As of last week california s public prisons held 117 195 inmates 130 6 percent of the capacity they were designed to house under the court order the state cannot exceed 137 5 percent of. While the doj memo is significant it isn t binding for. California passes ab 32 shutting down private prisons.