Biden to Order Justice Department to End Private Prison Use (3)

The U.S. Justice Department will be required to end its use of privately run prisons under an executive order signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden.

Biden instructed the attorney general not to renew contracts with private prison operators, according to a White House statement.

“This is the first step to stop corporations from profiting off incarceration that is less humane and less safe,” Biden said in remarks at the White House Tuesday.

The move may hurt the country’s two largest operators of private prisons, GEO Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc., which saw their share prices gain significantly after ...