“United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has opened an investigation into the accreditation process for private detention operators following widespread reports of mismanagement and poor conditions for detainees in facilities nationwide. In a series of letters sent to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the American Correctional Association (ACA), and the three largest private prison operators, Senator Warren expressed her serious concerns with, and requested information about, the failures of the private prison accreditation system to protect the wellbeing of individuals detained at privately-operated facilities, and raised questions about conflicts of interest at the accrediting body, the ACA.” Read more here.