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Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails

by Rachel LA Corte
| April 14, 2021 4:09 PM

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

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