[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1806 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1806

 To require prisons and other correctional facilities holding Federal 
prisoners under a contract with the Federal Government to make the same 
     information available to the public that Federal prisons and 
           correctional facilities are required to do by law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2005

Mr. Strickland (for himself, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Holden, and Mr. 
   Kennedy of Rhode Island) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require prisons and other correctional facilities holding Federal 
prisoners under a contract with the Federal Government to make the same 
     information available to the public that Federal prisons and 
           correctional facilities are required to do by law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Private Prison Information Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUIREMENT FOR CONTRACT PRISONS.

    Each non-governmental entity contracting with the Federal 
Government to provide a prison or other correctional facility, shall 
have the same duty to release information about the operation of that 
prison or facility as a Government owned and run prison or correctional 
facility has under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, commonly 
called the Freedom of Information Act. Any party aggrieved by a 
violation of that duty may, in a civil action, obtain appropriate 
relief against that entity or any other proper party.
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