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Prisoner Rights : Conditions of Confinement : Legislative Documents

ACLU National Prison Project Letter to Rep. Cynthia McKinney (08/10/2006)
National Prison Project letter asking Congress to audit the Orlean Parish Prison's emergency preparedness plans. The ACLU is calling for a full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities during and after hurricane Katrina and is also urging the DOJ to make the findings from such an investigation public and accessible to state and federal prosecutors.

National Prison Project Letter to Rep. Melvin Watt, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (08/10/2006)
National Prison Project letter asking Congress to audit the Orlean Parish Prison's emergency preparedness plans. The ACLU is calling for a full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities during and after hurricane Katrina and is also urging the DOJ to make the findings from such an investigation public and accessible to state and federal prosecutors.

National Prison Project Letter to the Department of Justice (08/09/2006)
National Prison Project letter asking Congress to audit the Orlean Parish Prison's emergency preparedness plans. The ACLU is calling for a full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities during and after hurricane Katrina and is also urging the DOJ to make the findings from such an investigation public and accessible to state and federal prosecutors.

National Prison Project Letter to Rep. Tom Davis (Chairman of Select Bipartisan Committee) (08/09/2006)

Abandoned & Abused: Letter to President Bush (08/09/2006)

Sign-on Letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee Urging Opposition to Attaching Federal Prison Industries Bill (H.R. 1577) to Department of Defense Authorization Bills (10/01/2002)

Letter to House and Senate Department of Defense Authorization Conferees Urging Opposition to Attaching Federal Prison Industries Bill (HR 1577) to DOD Authorization Bills (09/16/2002)

ACLU Statement for the Record for the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Prison Rape Prevention (07/31/2002)

Statement of Kara Gotsch of the ACLU National Prison Project on H.R. 1577, the Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2002 (07/23/2002)

Letter to Senators Hatch and Leahy on Opposition to S. 304, the "Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001" (06/29/2001)

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