The US Justice Department officially announced in August this year that it would shut down all private federal prisons across the country. This decision will affect 20,000 inmates locked in federal facilities and not inmates in state prisons and county jails who constitute the majority of the inmate population in the United States.
It was decided to use private federal prisons at the end of the 1990s to solve the problems of overcrowded federal prisons. However, in the last 3 years, there has been a major decrease in the number of federal inmates thanks to changes in penal policy that justify a reduction in the number of prisons.
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