9/16/2010--Introduced.Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of State to annually report to Congress describing prison and detention facility conditions in countries receiving U.S. assistance, including a list of countries whose governments do not meet minimum prison and detention facility standards but are, and those who are not, making significant compliance efforts. Urges the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide assistance to countries whose governments do not meet such minimum standards but are making significant compliance efforts. Prohibits such funds from being used to construct new prisons. Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations to achieve the purposes of this Act with a government listed in the report as not making significant compliance efforts Authorizes in order to achieve such purposes:
(1) the Secretary and the Administrator to restructure or reduce U.S. assistance to such government; and
(2) the Secretary to issue or deny visas for U.S. travel by officials of such government. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor a full-time equivalent Deputy Assistant Secretary level position to advance the purposes of this Act.
Comment: This bill should be opposed because it is a waste of taxpayer money and involves the United States within the workings of sovereign countries.
The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, so we are definitely not the justice model of a fair society. Mr. Leahy would do well to look at the draconian procedures he helped create in the US during his time in the US Senate and turn his attention to fixing our problems before pointing out the splinter in another country’s eye.
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