Executive Order 14006, officially titled Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities, is an

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signed by U.S. President

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on January 26, 2021. The

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will not renew any existing contracts with privately operated prisons. This order was rescinded as a part of U.S. President

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's "Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions" executive order on January 20, 2025.

Effects

It will gradually abolish the US government's reliance on privately operated detention facilities as they tend to not have the same level of safety as state-owned ones.

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