Decision to phase out private prisons results in 200 federal inmates transferred to Berlin
BERLIN âApproximately 200 federal inmates are being transferred to the federal prison in Berlin as a result of President Joe Bidenâs decision to phase out the use of private prisons. Aaron Posthumus, executive assistant at the Federal Correctional Institute-Berlin, said the prison is absorbing about 200 inmates that were being held at a private prison in Texas. For security reasons, he said the Bureau of Prisons does not provide specific transfer plans. Posthumus said the Bureau of Prisons âhouses many inmates in low security, privately contracted, correctional facilities. Afte...