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[CITE: 42USC1997g]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                SUBCHAPTER I-A--INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS
 
Sec. 1997g. Priorities for use of funds

    It is the intent of Congress that deplorable conditions in 
institutions covered by this subchapter amounting to deprivations of 
rights protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States be 
corrected, not only by litigation as contemplated in this subchapter, 
but also by the voluntary good faith efforts of agencies of Federal, 
State, and local governments. It is the further intention of Congress 
that where Federal funds are available for use in improving such 
institutions, priority should be given to the correction or elimination 
of such unconstitutional or illegal conditions which may exist. It is 
not the intent of this provision to require the redirection of funds 
from one program to another or from one State to another.

(Pub. L. 96-247, Sec. 9, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 354.)
