BERLIN —Approximately 200 federal inmates are being transferred to the federal prison in Berlin as a result of President Joe Biden’s decision to phase out the use of private prisons.

Aaron Posthumus, executive assistant at the Federal Correctional Institute-Berlin, said the prison is absorbing about 200 inmates that were being held at a private prison in Texas. For security reasons, he said the Bureau of Prisons does not provide specific transfer plans.

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