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Bills, lawsuits attempt to thwart private prisons' escape from FOIA

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. · July 22, 2008 · Freedom of information The Reporters Committee for Freedom the Press Bills, lawsuits attempt to thwart private prisons' escape from FOIA Two Democratic lawmakers are looking to hold private prisons housing federal inmates to the same Freedom of Information Act standards as federal facilities. But while their bills sit in Congress, the First Amendment Center reports, open government advocates are coming at the issue from a different angle. Two recent lawsuits aim to increase the flow of information from private prisons using FOIA, according to the First Amendment Center. Last month, the ACLU filed a FOIA suit against the Department of Homeland Security in hopes of forcing the agency to hand over records on the deaths of immigrant detainees who were in the custody of private prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).