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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 724

To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs to make grants to States and units of

local government to assist in providing secure facilities for violent and

chronic juvenile offenders, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

APRIL 25 (legislative day, APRIL 24), 1995

Mr. KOHL (for himself and Mr. SPECTER) introduced the following bill; which

was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs to make

grants to States and units of local government to assist

in providing secure facilities for violent and chronic juvenile offenders, and for other purposes.

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 ‘‘Juvenile Corrections

5 Act of 1995’’.
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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR VIOLENT AND CHRONIC JUVENILE

2 FACILITIES.

3 (a) GRANTS.—The Administrator may make grants

4 to States and units of local government or combinations

5 thereof to assist them in planning, establishing, and oper6 ating secure facilities, staff-secure facilities, detention cen7 ters, and other correctional programs for violent and seri8 ous chronic juvenile offenders.

9 (b) APPLICATIONS.—

10 (1) IN GENERAL.—The chief executive officer of

11 a State or unit of local government that desires to

12 receive a grant under this section shall submit to the

13 Administrator an application, in such form and in

14 such manner as the Administrator may prescribe.

15 (2) CONTENTS.—An application under para16 graph (1) shall—

17 (A) provide assurances that each facility or

18 program funded with a grant under this section

19 will provide appropriate educational and voca20 tional training and substance abuse treatment

21 for juvenile offenders; and

22 (B) provide assurances that each facility or

23 program funded with a grant under this section

24 will afford juvenile offenders intensive post25 release supervision and services.

26 (c) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—
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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para2 graph (2), each qualifying State, together with units

3 of local government within the State, shall be allo4 cated for each fiscal year not less than 1.0 percent

5 of the total amount appropriated for that fiscal year

6 for grants under subsection (b).

7 (2) EXCEPTION.—The United States Virgin Is8 lands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern

9 Mariana Islands shall each be allocated 0.2 percent

10 of the total amount appropriated for that fiscal year

11 for grants under subsection (b).

12 (d) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.—

13 (1) EVALUATION COMPONENTS.—

14 (A) IN GENERAL.—Each facility or pro15 gram funded under this section shall contain an

16 evaluation component developed pursuant to

17 guidelines established by the Administrator.

18 (B) OUTCOME MEASURES.—The evalua19 tions required by this subsection shall include

20 outcome measures that can be used to deter21 mine the effectiveness of the funded programs,

22 including the effectiveness of such programs in

23 comparison with other correctional programs or

24 dispositions in reducing the incidence of recidi25 vism, and other outcome measures.
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1 (2) PERIODIC REVIEW AND REPORTS.—

2 (A) REVIEW.—The Administrator shall re3 view the performance of each grant recipient

4 under this section.

5 (B) REPORTS.—The Administrator may

6 require a grant recipient to submit to the Office

7 of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

8 the results of the evaluations required under

9 paragraph (1) and such other data and infor10 mation as are reasonably necessary to carry out

11 the Administrator’s responsibilities under this

12 section.

13 (e) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.—The

14 Administrator shall provide technical assistance and train15 ing to States and units of local government that receive

16 grants under this section to achieve the purposes of this

17 section.

18 (f) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section—

19 (1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad20 ministrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and De21 linquency Prevention Programs;

22 (2) the term ‘‘qualifying State’’ means a State

23 that has submitted, or a State in which an eligible

24 unit of local government has submitted, a grant ap-
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1 plication that meets the requirements of subsections

2 (b) and (d); and

3 (3) the term ‘‘State’’ means a State, the Dis4 trict of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto

5 Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American

6 Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

7 (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

8 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this

9 section—

10 (1) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;

11 (2) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;

12 (3) $190,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;

13 (4) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1999; and

14 (5) $207,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.

15 SEC. 3. COMPENSATING REDUCTION OF AUTHORIZATION

16 OF APPROPRIATIONS.

17 Section 20109 of the Violent Crime Control and Law

18 Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended by striking para19 graphs (2) through (6) and inserting the following:

20 ‘‘(2) $675,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;

21 ‘‘(3) $900,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;

22 ‘‘(4) $1,710,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;

23 ‘‘(5) $1,800,000,000 for fiscal year 1999; and

24 ‘‘(6) $1,863,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.’’.
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1 SEC. 4. REPORT ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

2 MEASURES IN JUVENILE CORRECTIONS

3 PROGRAMS.

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the

5 date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall,

6 after consultation with the National Institute of Justice

7 and other appropriate governmental and nongovernmental

8 organizations, submit to Congress a report regarding the

9 possible use of performance-based criteria in evaluating

10 and improving the effectiveness of juvenile corrections fa11 cilities and programs.

12 (b) CONTENTS.—The report required under this sec13 tion shall discuss—

14 (1) the range of performance-based measures

15 that might be utilized as evaluation criteria, includ16 ing measures of recidivism among juveniles who have

17 been incarcerated in facilities or have participated in

18 correctional programs;

19 (2) the feasibility of linking Federal juvenile

20 corrections funding to the satisfaction of perform21 ance-based criteria by grantees (including the use of

22 a Federal matching mechanism under which the

23 share of Federal funding would vary in relation to

24 the performance of a program or facility);

25 (3) whether, and to what extent, the data nec26 essary for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
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1 quency Prevention to utilize performance-based cri2 teria in its administration of juvenile corrections

3 programs are collected and reported nationally; and

4 (4) the estimated cost and feasibility of estab5 lishing minimal, uniform data collection and report6 ing standards nationwide that would allow for the

7 use of performance-based criteria in evaluating juve8 nile corrections programs and facilities and admin9 istering Federal juvenile corrections funds.

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