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Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act : ウィキペディア英語版 | Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) of 1980 is a United States federal law〔42 U.S.C. § 1997 http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/cripastat.php〕 intended to protect the rights of people in state or local correctional facilities, nursing homes, mental health facilities and institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CRIPA is enforced by the Special Litigation Section in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, which investigates and prosecutes complaints in terms of this legislation.〔Department of Justice Civil Rights Division http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/cripa.php〕 The Special Litigation Section is allowed to investigate state or locally operated institutions in order to ascertain if there is a pattern or a practice of violations of a residents' federal rights.〔 The section is not allowed to investigate private facilities. They are also not allowed to represent individuals or address specific individual cases, but they are able to file lawsuits against facilities as a whole.〔 ==Background== The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Peoples Act (CRIPA) was enacted into law in 1980, and enabled the Department of Justice to protect the rights of those individuals who were in the care of state institutions.〔National Council on Disability. August 8, 2005. http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2005/pdf/personsact.pdf〕 Such institutions include state and locally operated jails and prisons, juvenile correctional facilities, public nursing homes, mental health facilities and institutions for individuals with intellectual disabilities.〔 The law allows for the attorney general to intervene on behalf of institutionalized people whose rights may have been oppressed. This law was enacted to ensure the safety of those individuals who may feel uncomfortable reporting issues of abuse in these government run institutions. CRIPA does not create any new rights. Instead, it allows the attorney general to enforce already established rights of institutionalized persons.
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