42-U.S.C.-13726
§13726 – Findings
Pathway
Title 42 > Chapter 136 > Subchapter I > Part B > Section 13726
Details
- Reference: Section 13726
- Legend: §13726 – Findings
- USCode Year: 2011
Provision Content
Congress finds the following:
(1) Increasingly, States are turning to private prisoner transport companies as an alternative to their own personnel or the United States Marshals Service when transporting violent prisoners.
(2) The transport process can last for days if not weeks, as violent prisoners are dropped off and picked up at a network of hubs across the country.
(3) Escapes by violent prisoners during transport by private prisoner transport companies have occurred.
(4) Oversight by the Attorney General is required to address these problems.
(5) While most governmental entities may prefer to use, and will continue to use, fully trained and sworn law enforcement officers when transporting violent prisoners, fiscal or logistical concerns may make the use of highly specialized private prisoner transport companies an option. Nothing in sections 13726 to 13726c of this title should be construed to mean that governmental entities should contract with private prisoner transport companies to move violent prisoners; however when a government entity opts to use a private prisoner transport company to move violent prisoners, then the company should be subject to regulation in order to enhance public safety.
(Pub. L. 106–560, §2, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2784.)
References in Text
Sections 13726 to 13726c of this title, referred to in par. (5), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 106–560, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2784, known as the Interstate Transportation of Dangerous Criminals Act of 2000 or Jeannas Act, which enacted this section and sections 13726a to 13726c of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 13701 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 2000 Amendments note set out under 13701 of this title and Tables.
Codification
This section was enacted as part of the Interstate Transportation of Dangerous Criminals Act of 2000 or Jeannas Act, and not as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which enacted this chapter.
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