Dromm Statement on the Department of Justice’s Announcement to End Use of Private Prisons

UsaNewsOnline.Com Desk, New York : “I hail the Justice Department’s announcement ending taxpayer support of the private prison industry, which has profited off of human misery for too long” said NYC Council Member Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights, Elmhurst)mm.  “Federal authorities now need to extend this directive to immigration detention, including NYC-area facilities run by the Corrections Corporation of America, the GEO Group, and the Orwellian-sounding Community Education Centers. Many New Yorkers are caught up in this system where filling bed quotas, not implementing more humane and cost-effective alternatives, is incentivized and human rights abuses are all too common.” Press Release.