WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons. Yates had said that private prisons compared “poorly” to BOP prisons. The two largest private prison companies have told investors that they have room to accommodate increased use of their prisons by federal or state and local authorities. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the Sessions memo was an example of “how our corrupt political and campaign finance system” works. “Private prison companies invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and today they got their reward: the Trump administration reversed the Obama administration’s directive to reduce the Justice Department’s use of private prisons,” Sanders said in a statement.

Source: Huffington Post February 23, 2017 21:39 UTC