Two days after the Biden administration issued an executive order to end the Department of Justice's reliance on private prisons, Representative Jason Crow and other members of Congress called on the president to also commit to ending the use of private prisons for immigrant detention. "The Federal Government has a responsibility to ensure the safe and humane treatment of those in its care, and that must be as true for individuals detained in private prisons in DOJ custody as it is for individuals detained in private prisons in the Department of Homeland Security custody. We stand ready to work with the Biden Administration to end the use of private immigration detention facilities by ICE," 75 members of Congress stated in a January 28 letter organized by representatives Crow, Pramila Jayapal and Raul Ruiz to David Pekoske, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.