§1997f — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Attorney General must include five things in the Justice Department’s report to Congress. The report must list how many and what kinds of cases were started under this law, their outcomes, and how and why each case began or the Department joined it; explain how complaints about conditions in institutions are handled; analyze the effects of those actions and, when possible, estimate costs to States and localities; describe federal help given to States to fix the problems; and report each federal institution’s progress toward required standards or constitutional minimums.

Title 42, §1997f

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The Attorney General shall include in the report to Congress on the business of the Department of Justice prepared pursuant to section 522 of title 28—

(1)a statement of the number, variety, and outcome of all actions instituted pursuant to this subchapter including the history of, precise reasons for, and procedures followed in initiation or intervention in each case in which action was commenced;

(2)a detailed explanation of the procedures by which the Department has received, reviewed and evaluated petitions or complaints regarding conditions in institutions;

(3)an analysis of the impact of actions instituted pursuant to this subchapter, including, when feasible, an estimate of the costs incurred by States and other political subdivisions;

(4)a statement of the financial, technical, or other assistance which has been made available from the United States to the State in order to assist in the correction of the conditions which are alleged to have deprived a person of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States; and

(5)the progress made in each Federal institution toward meeting existing promulgated standards for such institutions or constitutionally guaranteed minima.

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Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–134 substituted “the report” for “his report” in introductory provisions. 1982—Pub. L. 97–256 substituted “Attorney General” for “Attorney”.

§1997f Report to Congress

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