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NCJ Number:	166783

Title:	Federal Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Confined Juveniles: Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. S 1997

Corporate Author:	Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section United States of America

Date Published:	1997

Page Count:	14

Sponsoring Agency:	Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section Washington, DC 20035 NCJRS Photocopy Services Rockville, MD 20849-6000

Sale Source:	NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section P.O. Box 66400 Washington, DC 20035 United States of America

Type:	Legislation/Policy Analysis

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This document presents and explains the provisions of the Federal law concerning the civil rights of institutionalized persons; the law gives the Attorney General standing to redress unlawful conditions in publicly operated residential institutions, including juvenile facilities, mental health facilities, jails, and prisons.

Abstract:	The law also covers nursing homes and facilities serving people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. The law was enacted in 1980 in response to national concern about institutional conditions. It covers all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States territories, counties, and cities. The law focuses on systemic deficiencies rather than individual, isolated problems. Investigations are initiated by complaints from parents, residents, staff, advocates, media reports. United States attorneys, and other sources. Expert consultants, attorneys, and paralegals conduct investigations. They gather information by means of tours of facilities and observations of conditions; interviews with administrators, staff, residents, relatives, and advocates; and reviews of records and other documents. Resolution occurs most frequently through a consent decree filed in Federal court detailing the remedial steps the jurisdiction agrees to take.

Main Term(s):	Juvenile correctional facilities

Index Term(s):	Civil commitment; Corrections standards; Facility conditions; Federal Code; Institutional child abuse; Regulations compliance; Rights of minors



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