Bernie Sanders: Our Criminal Justice System is Broken, Ending Private Prisons is a Good First Step Forward

BURLINGTON, Vt. –-(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2015.  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders stated today that the United States needs major reforms to our broken criminal justice system, and that a good step forward would be to end the practice of prisons in America being run by private corporations. He will soon introduce legislation to do just that.

Of the nearly 1.6 million people in federal and state prisons in 2013, 133,044 (8.4 percent) were in private prisons. That…