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Thu Sep-18-08 11:25 AM
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Deaths in Custody Reporting Act

Edited on Thu Sep-18-08 11:25 AM by AlphaCentauri

Washington, DC – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up a bill that reauthorizes a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) program, called the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, which is designed to report the deaths of prisoners and immigration detainees in local and state custody. The ACLU urges senators to strengthen the House-passed bill, H.R. 3971, the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2008, by requiring federal detention facilities to report in-custody deaths to the attorney general.

http://www.hvpress.net/news/126/ARTICLE/5162/2008-09-18.html

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