Privatizing Criminal Justice

Guest: Maybell Romero, Visiting Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, BYU President Trump this week placed his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of a new White House office focused on leverage business ideas to make government more efficient – and in some cases, to privatize government functions. We’ve already seen evidence through directives from the US Attorney General’s office that the Trump Administration intends to continue relying on privately-run prisons, which the Obama administration had planned to move away from.