Bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers, including Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee and Republican...
President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s move to close private prisons is uniting the Texas delegation like little else has during his time in office.
The lawmakers, who also include U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and South Texas Democratic U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente González, say the closures threaten to wreak havoc on both the legal system and on local economies, with the rights of inmates and hundreds of jobs on the line.
The administration plans to close another detention center in Laredo in October, which the lawmakers say will put another 1,600 detainees in a similar situation. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the federal government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” Biden’s order said.
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