USA Today: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will end its use of private prisons, declaring that the facilities are less safe and "compare poorly'' with government-run institutions in the country's largest prison system.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, in a Thursday memo to the federal Bureau of Prisons, directed officials to start the process of reducing and "ultimately ending'' the government's reliance on private lock-ups that at its peak in 2013 housed nearly 30,000 of the 220,00 inmates in custody.
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