Expect Criminal-Justice and Prison Reform from President Trump Tuesday Night
“About 10 percent of all incarcerated individuals in the United States are in federal prison. ‘If they were a state, they would be the largest state in the country,’ Deason said. To bring these kinds of anti-recidivism programs to federal prisons, ‘all it requires is an executive order instructing Jeff Sessions to open up the Bureau of Prisons to outside service providers,’ he explained. ‘Right now they do so, but only on a very limited basis.’”