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Comment by steveklabnik | Hacker News Reader

I am glad to see this move, but

  > The 13 privately run facilities will not close overnight.

That is, this affects 13 prisons. I'll take it, but not exactly a sweeping reform.

There are only around 100 federal prisons total. This is a large chunk for the federal level. State prisons are a much larger issue.

Agreed on both counts.

Gotta start somewhere.

Agreed, and hopefully, this can be the first of many such reforms. The headline makes it sound like an end, rather than a start.

That's because this is a non-issue.