as loic wacquant, one of the world's leading experts on the carceral state, has noted, the prison system is primarily a state institution, w/ only a marginal amount (6%) being privatized. the DOJ only contracts w/ 3 private prisons covering 14K prisoners out of 2.2M https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1354132488067538944

excerpt from this great piece: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/191423164.pdf

if you actually care about racial and social justice you tackle the carceral state you were the chief architect of, instead of doing a mostly symbolic move that gets you likes from liberals who are conned by shiny objects

for more of wacquant's work on how the neoliberal carceral state was created by the likes of biden, and a description of its function as disciplining and punishing those in the lower regions of the social and economic space, see this thread https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1302673339090116608

more links to his writings, which I can't recommend highly enough, in this thread https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1294310339652329474