S. 657
Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2013
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 246.
Sponsor
Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Bill Details
- Update Date
- Jan 11, 2023
- Origin Chamber
- Senate
- Bill Type
- S
- Bill Number
- 657
- Congress
- 113
- Introduced Date
- Mar 22, 2013
- Policy Area
- International Affairs
- Is Law
- No
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 246.
Source: Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez without amendment. Without written report.
Source: Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez without amendment. Without written report.
Source: Library of Congress
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Source: Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Source: Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2335-2336)
Source: Library of Congress
Introduced in Senate
Source: Library of Congress
Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress for 6 years describing prison and detention facility conditions in at least 30 countries receiving U.S. assistance or under U.S. sanction selected as a result of the Secretary's determination that such conditions raise the most serious human rights or humanitarian concerns.
Urges the Secretary and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide assistance to eliminate inhumane conditions in prisons and other detention facilities. 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 the Secretary and the Administrator to restructure or reduce U.S. assistance to such government in order to achieve such purposes.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) 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; and (2) provide training for Foreign Service officers in assessing foreign prison and detention facility conditions.
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress for 6 years describing prison and detention facility conditions in at least 30 countries receiving U.S. assistance or under U.S. sanction selected as a result of the Secretary's determination that such conditions raise the most serious human rights or humanitarian concerns.
Urges the Secretary and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide assistance to eliminate inhumane conditions in prisons and other detention facilities. 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 the Secretary and the Administrator to restructure or reduce U.S. assistance to such government in order to achieve such purposes.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) 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; and (2) provide training for Foreign Service officers in assessing foreign prison and detention facility conditions.
Foreign Relations Committee