WORK INCENTIVES IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1999 AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT THE UTAH ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1965 --> ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS ACT FEDERAL FAIR HOUSING ACT UTAH FAIR HOUSING ACT REHABILITATION ACT AIR CARRIER ACCESS ACT CIVIL RIGHTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT UTAH LEMON LAW --> Resources		CIVIL RIGHTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT   The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) authorizes the US Attorney General to investigate conditions of confinement at State and local government institutions such as: prisons jails pretrial detention centers juvenile correctional facilities publicly operated nursing homes institutions for people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities   Its purpose is to allow the Attorney General to uncover and correct widespread deficiencies that seriously jeopardize the health and safety of residents of institutions. The Attorney General does not have authority under CRIPA to investigate isolated incidents or to represent individual institutionalized persons.   The Attorney General may initiate civil law suits where there is reasonable cause to believe that conditions are: "egregious or flagrant," subjecting residents to "grievous harm," part of a "pattern or practice", of resistance to residents' full enjoyment of constitutional or Federal rights, including Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Return to Top
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