Sanders bill would end for-profit prisons, immigrant detention

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Sanders bill would end for-profit prisons, immigrant detention

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will roll out legislation later this week aimed at overhauling the for-profit prison system and ending the practice of detaining immigrants and asylum seekers.

Among some of the highlights of the bill: It calls for the federal government to end contracting with private prisons within two years and it boosts oversight meant to ban companies from overcharging inmates and families for services such as phone calls from jail.

On the immigration front, Sanders and Grijalva will demand that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson end the practice of detaining immigrant families “immediately” — a practice that is overwhelmingly opposed by Democrats on Capitol Hill — and call for ending the quota mandated by federal officials that 34,000 immigrants be detained at detention centers every day.

[upaloopa]

1. We need to elect large majorities in both Houses

of Congress so these bills can become law.

[azmom]

2. Fuck yeah!!!

Go Bernie!!!

[magical thyme]

3. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

4. Yes! nt