Trump reinstated the use of private prisons for federal inmate

President Donald Trump’s administration has reinstated the use of private prisons for federal inmates, saying commercial prison operators are needed for the correctional system’s “future needs.”

Trump’s new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, officially rescinded the Barack Obama administration’s move last August to phase out the management of prisons by private companies, which Obama’s justice department had said proved to be inadequate, more dangerous and not cheaper than government-run prisons.