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119-hr-3612119th CongressWALLET

End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]

Introduced

Summary

Phases out for-profit private contracts for core federal prison services by requiring those services be performed by federal employees and banning for-profit management of community confinement facilities. The bill also adds stronger reentry counseling, annual inspections, and regular research and reporting to Congress.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Reentry help before federal prison release

If enacted, the Attorney General would set rules so each person leaving federal custody gets reentry counseling. Topics would include expungement rights, help removing job barriers, and training and education options. People would get a record of programs finished inside. Staff would help with applications for food help (SNAP), Medicaid, Social Security, a driver’s license, and voter registration. The Bureau of Prisons would also give each person details on any fines, fees, and restitution they still owe.

Yearly inspections of U.S. Marshals jails

If enacted, within one year and every year after, the United States Marshals Service would inspect every facility it uses to hold people. Inspections would check compliance with the Constitution, federal law, Marshals Service rules, and any State or local standards.

End for-profit halfway houses over time

If enacted, eight years after enactment the Bureau of Prisons would be barred from contracts with for-profit companies to run or manage community confinement facilities (halfway houses). The bill would lock in the meaning of “community confinement facility” by using the definition in 28 C.F.R. 115.5 on the day the bill becomes law. The Attorney General would study reentry programs every four years, set guidelines from the research, and report to Congress on how contracts use those guidelines.

End private operators in federal prisons

If enacted, six years after enactment, federal prisons could not use private companies for core correctional services. Core services include housing, guarding, protecting, and discipline. The U.S. Marshals could use State or local jails only if government employees perform these services and the facility meets federal and local standards. The Attorney General would phase out conflicting contracts by the end of the transition period.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]

NJ • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 5/23/2025

  • Rep. McIver, LaMonica [D-NJ-10]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 5/23/2025

  • Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-GA-4]

    GA • D

    Sponsored 5/23/2025

  • Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 5/23/2025

  • Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 5/23/2025

  • Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 6/4/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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