Union Calendar No. 255

103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 3968

[Report No. 103–462]

A BILL

To provide grants to States to assist in the incarrate of recidivism. port comprehensive programs that will reduce the correctional facilities and programs and to sup- age the problems associated with overcapacity in ceration of violent repeat offenders and to manMARCH 25, 1994

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commitordered to be printed tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
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Union Calendar No. 255

103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 3968

[Report No. 103–462]

To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration of violent repeat

offenders and to manage the problems associated with overcapacity in

correctional facilities and programs and to support comprehensive programs that will reduce the rate of recidivism.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARCH 8, 1994

Mr. HUGHES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary

MARCH 25, 1994

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 8, 1994]

A BILL

To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration

of violent repeat offenders and to manage the problems

associated with overcapacity in correctional facilities and

programs and to support comprehensive programs that

will reduce the rate of recidivism.
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Violent Repeat

5 Offender Incarceration Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

7 (a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General

8 may make grants to individual States and to States, orga9 nized as multi-State compacts, to develop, expand, modify,

10 or improve correctional facilities and programs to ensure

11 that prison cell space is available for the confinement of

12 violent repeat offenders.

13 (b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant

14 under this Act a State or States, organized as multi-State

15 compacts, shall submit an application to the Attorney Gen16 eral which includes—

17 (1) assurances that the State or States, have im18 plemented, or will implement, correctional policies

19 and programs that are designed to provide suffi20 ciently severe punishment for violent repeat offenders,

21 including violent juvenile offenders, and that the pris22 on time served is appropriately related to the deter23 mination that the inmate is a violent repeat offender

24 and for a period of time deemed necessary to protect

25 the public;
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1 (2) assurances that the State or States have im2 plemented policies that provide for the recognition of

3 the rights and needs of crime victims;

4 (3) assurances that funds received under this Act

5 will be used to develop, expand, modify, or improve

6 correctional facilities and programs to ensure that

7 prison cell space is available for the confinement of

8 violent repeat offenders;

9 (4) assurances that the State or States have a

10 comprehensive correctional plan which represents an

11 integrated approach to the management and oper12 ation of correctional facilities and programs and

13 which includes diversional programs, particularly

14 drug diversion programs, community corrections pro15 grams, a prisoner screening and security classifica16 tion system, prisoner rehabilitation and treatment

17 programs, prisoner work activities, and job skills pro18 grams, a pre-release prisoner assessment to provide

19 risk reduction management, post-release assistance,

20 and an assessment of recidivism rates;

21 (5) assurances that the State or States have in22 volved counties and other units of local government,

23 when appropriate, in the development, expansion,

24 modification, or improvement of correctional facilities
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1 and programs designed to ensure the incarceration of

2 violent offenders;

3 (6) assurances that funds received under this sec4 tion will be used to supplement, not supplant, other

5 Federal, State, and local funds; and

6 (7) documentation of the multi-State compact

7 agreement that specifies the development, expansion,

8 modification, or improvement of correctional facilities

9 and programs.

10 (c) CONSIDERATION.—The Attorney General, in mak11 ing such grants, shall give consideration to the special bur12 den placed on States which incarcerate a substantial num13 ber of inmates who are in the United States illegally.

14 (d) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Federal share of

15 a grant received under this Act may not exceed 75 percent

16 of the costs of a proposal described in an application ap17 proved under this Act.

18 SEC. 3. RULES AND REGULATIONS.

19 The Attorney General shall issue rules and regulations

20 regarding the uses of grant funds received under this Act

21 not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of

22 this Act.

23 SEC. 4. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.

24 The Attorney General may request that the Director

25 of the National Institute of Corrections and the Director
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1 of the Federal Bureau of Prisons provide technical assist2 ance and training to a State or States that receive a grant

3 under this Act to achieve the purposes of this Act.

4 SEC. 5. EVALUATION.

5 The Attorney General may request the Director of the

6 National Institute of Corrections to assist with an evalua7 tion of programs established with funds under this Act.

8 SEC. 6. DEFINITION.

9 For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘State or States’’

10 means any State, the District of Columbia, the Common11 wealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,

12 American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Is13 lands.

14 SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

15 There are authorized to be appropriated $600,000,000

16 for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1998 to carry out

17 the purposes of this Act.