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Federal Register 

Vol. 86, No. 18 

Friday, January 29, 2021 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021 

Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of 

Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Policy. More than two million people are currently incarcerated 

in the United States, including a disproportionate number of people of 

color. There is broad consensus that our current system of mass incarceration 

imposes significant costs and hardships on our society and communities 

and does not make us safer. To decrease incarceration levels, we must 

reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal 

Government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities. 

We must ensure that our Nation’s incarceration and correctional systems 

are prioritizing rehabilitation and redemption. Incarcerated individuals 

should be given a fair chance to fully reintegrate into their communities, 

including by participating in programming tailored to earning a good living, 

securing affordable housing, and participating in our democracy as our fellow 

citizens. However, privately operated criminal detention facilities consistently underperform Federal facilities with respect to correctional services, 

programs, and resources. We should ensure that time in prison prepares 

individuals for the next chapter of their lives. 

The Federal Government also has a responsibility to ensure the safe and 

humane treatment of those in the Federal criminal justice system. However, 

as the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General found in 2016, 

privately operated criminal detention facilities do not maintain the same 

levels of safety and security for people in the Federal criminal justice system 

or for correctional staff. We have a duty to provide these individuals with 

safe working and living conditions. 

Sec. 2. Contracts with Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities. The 

Attorney General shall not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities, as consistent with applicable 

law. 

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 


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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 26, 2021. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02070 

Filed 1–28–21; 8:45 am] 

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