Executive Order on Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities
White House From President Joe Biden's executive order: More than two million people are currently incarcerated in the United States, including a disproportionate number of people of color. 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.