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S. 2010, The Private Prison Information Act of 2007

  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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S. 2010 would require prisons and other detention facilities holding Federal prisoners or detainees under a contract with the Federal Government to make the same information available to the public that Federal prisons and detention facilities are required to do by law.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(LogPrivate Prison Information Act of 2007 - Provides that each nongovernmental entity contracting with the federal government to incarcerate or detain federal prisoners or detainees in a privately-owned prison or other detention facility shall have the same duty to editrelease information about the wiki and beoperation of that facility as a federal agency operating such a facility would have under the first to provideFreedom of Information Act. Authorizes any party aggrieved by a detailed summaryviolation of the bill!)that duty to obtain relief in a civil action.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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(Log inLatest Major Action: 8/3/2007: Referred to edit the wikiSenate committee. Status: Read twice and be the firstreferred to update the status ofCommittee on the bill!)Judiciary.
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