California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America's largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into law on Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
The new law bars the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from entering into or renewing a contract with a private company to run a state prison after Jan. 1, 2020, unless needed to meet court-ordered inmate housing limits. It will ban California from incarcerating anyone in privately run facilities altogether from 2028.
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Newsom said in a statement that he had vowed to abolish private prisons in the state when he took office in January "because they contribute to over-incarceration, including those that incarcerate California inmates and those that detain immigrants and asylum seekers."
"These for-profit prisons do not reflect our values," Newsom said.
