Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities

Citation86 FR 7483
Published date29 January 2021
Record Number2021-02070
SectionPresidential Documents
CourtExecutive Office Of The President
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 18 (Friday, January 29, 2021)
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 18 (Friday, January 29, 2021)]
                [Presidential Documents]
                [Pages 7483-7484]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2021-02070] Presidential Documents
                Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 18 / Friday, January 29, 2021 /
                Presidential Documents
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                Title 3--
                The President
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                 Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021
                
                Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate
                 the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention
                 Facilities
                 By the authority vested in me as President by the
                 Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                 America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
                 Section 1. Policy. More than two million people are
                 currently incarcerated in the United States, including
                 a disproportionate number of people of color. There is
                 broad consensus that our current system of mass
                 incarceration imposes significant costs and hardships
                 on our society and communities and does not make us
                 safer. 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.
                 We must ensure that our Nation's incarceration and
                 correctional systems are prioritizing rehabilitation
                 and redemption. Incarcerated individuals should be
                 given a fair chance to fully reintegrate into their
                 communities, including by participating in programming
                 tailored to earning a good living, securing affordable
                 housing, and participating in our democracy as our
                 fellow citizens. However, privately operated criminal
                 detention facilities consistently underperform Federal
                 facilities with respect to correctional services,
                 programs, and resources. We should ensure that time in
                 prison prepares individuals for the next chapter of
                 their lives.
                 The Federal Government also has a responsibility to
                 ensure the safe and humane treatment of those in the
                 Federal criminal justice system. However, as the
                 Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General
                 found in 2016, privately operated criminal detention
                 facilities do not maintain the same levels of safety
                 and security for people in the Federal criminal justice
                 system or for correctional staff. We have a duty to
                 provide these individuals with safe working and living
                 conditions.
                 Sec. 2. Contracts with Privately Operated Criminal
                 Detention Facilities. The Attorney General shall not
                 renew Department of Justice contracts with privately
                 operated criminal detention facilities, as consistent
                 with applicable law.
                 Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
                 shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
                (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
                the head thereof; or
                (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
                relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
                 (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
                 applicable law and subject to the availability of
                 appropriations.
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                 (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
                 create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                 enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
                 the United States, its departments, agencies, or
                 entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
                 other person.
                
                
                 (Presidential Sig.)
                 THE WHITE HOUSE,
                 January 26, 2021.
                [FR Doc. 2021-02070
                Filed 1-28-21; 8:45 am]
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