Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities, 7483-7484 [2021-02070]

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[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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