NYC Divesting From Private Prisons

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced the city's pension funds would cut it's ties to private prisons. 

Stringer said these companies have failed a generation of Americans. 

"[The private prison system] is a system that is unfair, unjust, and inhumane," Stringer said. "It's wrong, and if this president gets his way private prisons are going to be used to hold those awaiting deportation." 

Stringer said reports have found private prisons threaten their inmates with solitary confinement. He said the city is liquidating roughly 48 million dollars in stocks and bonds from these companies.  

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