Former President Joe Biden’s ban on the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from contracting with private detention companies to hold criminal migrants resulted in increased costs for American taxpayers, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report suggests.
\n\nJust days after taking office in January 2021, Biden reinstated an Obama era-policy to phase out the BOP contracts with a handful of privately-managed prisons that almost entirely hold foreign nationals convicted of federal crimes.
\n\nAt the time, Biden billed the initiative as part of his “racial equity” agenda.
\n\nThe decision, the GAO report states, led to a rise in prison costs for Americans, as private detention centers contracted by BOP to hold criminal migrants tend to be much less expensive than federal detention facilities.
\n\n“BOP’s incarceration of noncitizens cost 17 percent more in fiscal year 2023 ($1.1 billion) than in fiscal year 2021 ($935 million), though the number of noncitizens incarcerated remained relatively the same,” the report reads:
\n\nAdjusting for inflation and expressing the amounts in federal fiscal year 2025 dollars, BOP’s incarceration of noncitizens cost 5 percent more in fiscal year 2023 ($1.15 billion) than in fiscal year 2021 ($1.1 billion). [Emphasis added]
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