H.R. 994: Justice is Not For Sale Act of 2021 – GovTrack
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2021-03-05 After Biden banned private prisons on a federal level, the Justice is Not for Sale Act would ban them on state and local levels too Critics also say the private prison system encourages mass incarceration, especially in states where judges are elected, because their biggest campaign funders are often private prisons whose incentives are electing particularly punitive judges to hand down especially long sentences.
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