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NY Times Editorial: Protection for the Vulnerable---stepping up the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act--including report on atrocities by guards at the Westchester Co Jail in N

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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NY Times Editorial Protection for the Vulnerable Published: December 3, 2009 The federal government is stepping up enforcement of an important law ? the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ? which authorizes the Justice Department to sue prisons, jails, mental institutions, nursing homes and other facilities that violate the constitutional rights of the confined. In New York State, the department has already intervened three times this year to try to improve protections for vulnerable people. Earlier this fall, the department threatened to sue New York?s juvenile justice system unless it agreed to correct barbaric conditions and abusive practices at some facilities. It has involved itself in a lawsuit brought against the state on behalf of thousands of mentally ill adults who are being isolated from the community, in clear violation of sound medical practice and federal law...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).