[tehwebguy]

I believe the timeline is that Obama started phasing them out, Trump halted that, and then Biden started phasing them out again. Good reminder that executive action isn’t worth the paper it’s written on either way.

(Perhaps most importantly, most private prisons are not federal)

[seoaeu]

> Good reminder that executive action isn’t worth the paper it’s written on either way.

That doesn’t at all follow from your previous statement that the executive orders of the last three presidents regarding private prisons have in fact been followed

[tehwebguy]

You are right, a better way to look at it would be that only the Democrat executive orders have been worthless since the federal private prison contracts that were already signed pre-Obama action (or signed during Trump admin) are not instantly dissolved by their executive action.

[stormbrew]

Seems like they just pivoted:

> Among the immigrant detention population, 40,634 people – 81% of the detained population – were confined in privately run facilities in 2019. The privately detained immigrant population grew 739% since 2002 to 2019.1) Biden’s executive order does not limit private contracts with immigrant detention facilities.

[tehwebguy]

Oh wow, that’s more than double the non-immigration federal private prison population