Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday revoked an Obama administration directive to gradually reduce the number of contracts with for-profit prison operators, saying it would interfere with meeting the demands of the prison population. Mr. Session’s memo comes despite an audit last year finding that private facilities are more dangerous than government-run prisons, and it reinforces expectations that he will reverse efforts by the previous administration aimed at shrinking the federal prison population. Mr. Sessions’...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 24, 2017 00:33 UTC