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![Homeland Security IG can’t compel safer immigration detention facilities fast enough](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/07/31/DHScov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Homeland Security IG can’t compel safer immigration detention facilities fast enough
MuckRock wants to learn more about the operations of these immigration detention facilities, private and public. If you’re a group local to a facility and want to help our effort, let us know.
![The First Step Act’s first steps are stalled](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/01/22/FSAcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The First Step Act’s first steps are stalled
The First Step Act was touted as beginning a reversal of decades of tough-on-crime policies. But just hours after the bill was signed by President Trump, the federal government began a shutdown of “nonessential” government operations. Now more than a month later, the shutdown has stopped efforts by the federal government to meet the new law’s first deadline - the selection of a team who will help implement a tool to assess risk and needs.
![The state of criminal justice and prison privatization as we enter 2019](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/01/11/Flag.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The state of criminal justice and prison privatization as we enter 2019
Between a federal shutdown, ongoing litigation, and new efforts to change bad policy, there’s a lot going on in the nation’s criminal justice system. Here’s what you might have missed.
![Bureau of Prisons looks to privatization amid staffing cuts](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/02/21/Fence.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Bureau of Prisons looks to privatization amid staffing cuts
The Trump administration’s policies will be benefiting the bank accounts of the country’s largest for-profit prison operators and echo correctional policies that have been controversial since the ’80s.