Ep. 396 - What Joe Biden's executive order on private prisons did and did not do.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
First off, over 90% of private prisons function on the city, county, and state level. All of those will remain.
Secondly, the majority of private prisons on the federal level are immigration detention centers. Joe Biden decided not to end those either. He's keeping those.
Lastly, we learned that he's not even ending the few private federal prisons that do exist. The executive order just said they won't renew their contracts. Many of them have contracts that last for years on end.
So, nobody is being freed. No city, county, or state private prisons are ending. No private ICE detention centers are ending. And they aren't closing down the others any time soon either.
In the end, that executive order will hardly impact anyone. Sadly.
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| 0:30.0 | I need us to be very careful to make sure that we're not celebrating smoke and mirrors from the Biden administration. |
| 0:40.0 | And in some ways what happened yesterday is not even fully the fault of the Biden administration |
| 0:47.0 | as much as it is the fault of people who drastically overstated what they did yesterday. |
| 0:55.0 | Yesterday Joe Biden issued an executive order and I'm going to tell you all about the order because it doesn't say |
| 1:02.0 | nearly what people thought it said and they began prematurely celebrating |
| 1:07.0 | leading even major media outlets saying that Joe Biden signed an executive order banning or stopping or ending private prisons. |
| 1:19.0 | If that's actually what he did, it would be amazing. It would be worth celebrating. |
| 1:26.0 | Sadly, that's not even a micro percentage of what happened. |
| 1:31.0 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:34.0 | Private prisons weren't even ended on the federal level and I have to actually explain what he did. |
| 1:41.0 | It's not terrible but it's also not much. This is Sean King and you were listening to... |
| 1:48.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:51.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:56.0 | Yesterday at about noon I suddenly started getting tagged in post after post after post |
| 2:12.0 | of people saying OMG Joe Biden just banned private prisons. |
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