<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="article_head0" style="margin-top: 0.4em !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1.6em; color: rgb(154, 61, 61); line-height: 1.1em;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">Private, for-profit prisons to end</span></div></div><div class="article_body0" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class=" first column last" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 554px; float: left;"><div class="div_padding0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px;"><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">State ban on facilities will include those used by federal agencies to hold immigrants</span></p><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Fid_10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">By</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">DON THOMPSON AND AMY TAXIN</span></div><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">SACRAMENTO — California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he had signed.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">The Democratic governor said the measure helps fulfill a promise he made to end private prison use, which he said contributes to over-incarceration and does “not reflect our values.”</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">The state’s prison system was already phasing them out, despite having to comply with an inmate population cap imposed by federal judges.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Immigrant advocates have praised the bill authored by Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, which they said would put an end to almost all immigration detention in California in the next year.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">However, one private prison company said it expects most if not all of the law would fail a legal challenge, particularly requiring the federal government to end its contracts.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">“States cannot lawfully pass legislation mandating the closure of federal facilities that displease them on the basis of ideological differences,” The Geo Group of Adelanto said in a statement.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">California has been at the forefront of resisting President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport those who are in the country illegally and has a so-called “sanctuary state” law that restricts police from asking people about their immigration</span><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> status or participating in federal immigration enforcement actions.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">The new measure prohibits the state corrections department from renewing contracts starting next year and from housing any state inmates in private, for-profit prisons starting in 2028.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">“We are sending a powerful message that we vehemently oppose the practice of profiteering off the backs of Californians in custody,” Bonta said.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">California previously halted growth in local government contracts to house immigration detainees. After that, populous Orange County south of Los Angeles and other local governments ended their contracts to hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Four dedicated immigration detention facilities remain in California with an average daily population of about 3,700 detainees. ICE has previously said the largest one, run by The Geo Group,</span><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> has a temporary contract set to expire in 2020, as does another facility in Bakersfield.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">ICE’s acting press secretary, Bryan Cox, said immigration enforcement would still take place, noting that California accounts for less than 10% of the agency’s detention capacity.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">He said the impact “would be felt primarily by residents of California who would theoretically have to travel greater distances to visit friends and family in custody.”</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Christina Fialho, co-founder of Freedom for Immigrants, said she doesn’t believe ICE could legally extend the contracts ending in 2020.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">“Within the next year, private immigration detention will be abolished for good in California,” she said, adding that rural Yuba County in Northern California still has a contract to detain immigrants but may also soon end it. “This is huge.”</span></p><div id="imgArt0" class="dontsplit imgArt" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; position: relative; text-align: center; max-width: 90%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img src="http://us5lb-cdn.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/ajax-request.php?val=Image_0.jpg&action=loadImage&type=Image&pSetup=santarosapressdemocrat_bb&issue=20191012&crc=pd03b101219_120000.pdf.0&edition=Santa%20Rosa%20Press%20Democrat&mtime=084500&paperImage=santarosapressdemocrat" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; position: relative; max-width: 90%;" class=""><img id="imgchild_0" class="imgchild" src="http://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/code/icons/usa/zoom_in.png" style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; border-top-left-radius: 20px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border-bottom-right-radius: 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 20px; right: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 0px !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, second from left, flanked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, and other lawmakers on Friday in Sacramento, discusses his measure that will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities. </span><span class="Fid_13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">RICH PEDRONCELLI / ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></div><div class=""><span class="Fid_13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>