That Fed announcement was an Obama era directive and was reversed by Jeff Sessions in 2017 [1]. 8.5% is not a small number and the conflict of interest is unten

That Fed announcement was an Obama era directive and was reversed by Jeff Sessions in 2017 [1]. 8.5% is not a small number and the conflict of interest is untenable as the scandals have shown. That this could be reversed inspite of known abuses [2] and serious problems [3] with the private prison system is extremely troubling. Private prison operators are one of the largest lobbying groups and spend more than $45 million a year on lobbying. [4] There have been a series of serious scandals with private prisons [5], judges [6] and corruption [7] with people sent to prison simply to pad numbers in private prisons. It's unteneble for a civilized society that believes in rule of law to allow justice to be vulgarized in this manner and allow a system known to be corrupt to stand. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-again-use-private-prisons/2017/02/23/da395d02-fa0e-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justi... [2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/?utm_term=.7365ae9c7446 https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/... [3] http://time.com/5013760/american-private-prisons-donald-trump/ http://time.com/5013760/american-private-prisons-donald-trum... [4] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-yankovich/be-careful-private-prison_b_8144860.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-yankovich/be-careful-pr... [5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/12/pennsylvania-judge-gets-life-sentence-for-prison-kickback-scheme/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/12/pennsylv... [6] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html [7] https://boingboing.net/2013/08/06/judge-who-accepted-private-pri.html https://boingboing.net/2013/08/06/judge-who-accepted-private...