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Re:US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:13PM (#18717829)
"The bill, which is expected to be debated in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, would only affect federal prisoners accounting for about 10% of the total US prison population."

The other 90% of prisoners do not necessarily have them. It really isn't a thing already, even with this.

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Re:US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill by moftz on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:28PM (#18717975)
Maybe a judge could apply due process to force private prisons to apply the same protections for prisoners similar to how the federal govt, specifically District of Columbia, was forced to integrate schools in Bolling v. Sharpe. The 14th amendment should apply if it was a state prison but being federal makes it different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolling_v._Sharpe

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