The US justice Department halts cooperation with private prisons.
The U.S. Department of justice is taking measures to put an end to private prisons on American soil, said Thursday the Agency AP, citing the statement of the Deputy U.S. attorney General Sally Yates.
According to the statement, one of the reasons for the decision of the justice Ministry not to renew the contracts with private prisons – reducing prison populations over the past three years,
The AP notes that a recent audit of private prisons found that these penal institutions are experiencing more problems in the security sphere than Federal prison.
According to the U.S. Department of justice, in December 2015 in private prisons were more than 22 thousand prisoners – about 12% of the total.
The US administration began to cooperate with private prisons in the late 1990-ies due to the fact that the Federal correctional institution was full of inmates adds up.
