Jeff Sessions Reverses Obama-Era Policy That Curtailed DOJ's Private Prison Use For-profit prisons were found to be more dangerous, but the attorney general said they're needed to "meet the future needs of the federal correctional system." 3.1k 120 WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department's use of private prisons. In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates "changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau's ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system." A Justice Department spokesman said Sessions' memo "directs the Bureau of Prisons to return to its previous approach to the use of private prisons,
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