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America is the world leader in locking up its citizens. The multi-billion dollar prison industry profits on the poor and incarcerated. Now they're coming for inmates' mail.  This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. The US incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world. That's not just in raw numbers, but the most human beings per capita locked in cages.  America locks up a higher percentage and more in total of its people than authoritarian China, one of the world's worst human rights abusers with a population four times that of the U...

Physical Mail Could Be Eliminated at Federal Prisons A pilot program initiated under Trump converts mail to electronic scans. Biden hasn’t reversed it, and critics call it abusive and harmful to inmates and families. In his first-week blitz of executive actions, Joe Biden directed the Justice Department to not renew federal contracts with the private prison industry. “[W]e must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” the order stated. But the profit motive will sti...