New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It

“There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. That’s what they’re talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them.” That’s what President Joe Biden said during an April 2021 speech in Georgia, where he found himself confronted by immigrant rights activists. Two years later, it’s clear that those were just empty words: The Biden…

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