House Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing on H.R. 1889, CUSA supported Bill
This update on H.R. 1889 comes directly from the folks at Corrections USA. They need your support! Please read the following update from a recent newsletter sent out regarding this bill - and get active, get involved!
At the request of CUSA, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing on H.R. 1889 on November 8, 2007 in Washington, D.C. H.R. 1889 was introduced by Congressman Tim Holden of Pennsylvania on behalf of CUSA.
H.R. 1889 would require private prison holding federal prisoners to make the same information available that is required by public sector institutions under the Freedom of Information Act. Congressman Holden testified at the hearing and was accompanied by CUSA Vice-Chair Roy Pinto; Percy Poindexter; Bob Storm; CUSA Lobbyist Mark Singel, CUSA Consultant Erik Milman;CUSA Private Prison expert and PCI Executive DirectorKen Kopcyznski. The hearing was a great success and we have been informed that a Committee mark-up will be scheduled in the near future.
CUSA would like to give a special thanks to Chairman Scott and Congressman Holden for their leadership and commitment.
We need your help! Please contact CUSA’s Washington Lobbyist, Mark Singel at MSingel@wintergrouppa.com if you need assistance in writing letters to members of the House of Representatives urging them to support H.R. 1889. We also need you to ask your Senator to sign on as a cosponsor of S. 2010. S. 2010 was introduced by Senator Lieberman at the request of CUSA and is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 1889.
CUSA will continue to keep you informed or visit our website at CUSA.org
Jim Baiardi
Chairman
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