{"id":3101,"date":"2015-09-09T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2015\/09\/09\/sanders-our-criminal-justice-system-is-broken-ending-private-prisons-is-a-good-first-step-forward\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T02:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:46:20","slug":"sanders-our-criminal-justice-system-is-broken-ending-private-prisons-is-a-good-first-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/sanders-our-criminal-justice-system-is-broken-ending-private-prisons-is-a-good-first-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders: Our Criminal Justice System is Broken Ending Private Prisons is a Good First Step Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BURLINGTON, Vt. \u2013 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders stated today that the United States needs major reforms to our broken criminal justice system, and that a good step forward would be to end the practice of prisons in America being run by private corporations. He will soon introduce legislation to do just that.<\/p>\n

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Of the nearly 1.6 million people in federal and state prisons in 2013, 133,044 (8.4 percent) were in private prisons. That included 41,150 federal inmates in private facilities (19.1 percent of all federal prisoners) and 91,885 state prisoners in private facilities (6.8 percent of total state inmates). Most of the individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement also are in private detention facilities.<\/p>

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\u201cIt is clear to most Americans that we need major reforms in our broken criminal justice system,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cWe need to end the tragic reality that the United States has more people in jail than any other country on earth, and that the people being incarcerated are disproportionately black and Hispanic. We need to take a hard look at why the rate of recidivism in this country is so high and why we are not developing successful paths back to civil society for those who serve prison time. Further we need to end, once and for all, the disgraceful practice of corporations profiting from the incarceration of Americans.<\/p>\n