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103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2471

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.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

SEPTEMBER 28 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 12), 1994

Mr. KOHL (for himself and Mr. COHEN) 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.

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 1994’’.
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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR VIOLENT AND CHRONIC JUVENILE FA2 CILITIES.

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 and staff-secure facilities for violent

7 and chronic juvenile offenders.

8 (b) ELIGIBILITY.—The mandates required by the Ju9 venile Justice and Delinquency Act (42 U.S.C. 5601 et

10 seq.) shall apply to grants under this section.

11 (c) APPLICATIONS.—

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

13 a State or unit of local government that desires to

14 receive a grant under this section shall submit to the

15 Administrator an application, in such form and in

16 such manner as the Administrator may prescribe.

17 (2) CONTENTS.—An application under para18 graph (1) shall—

19 (A) provide assurances that each facility

20 funded with a grant under this section will pro21 vide appropriate educational, vocational, and

22 lifeskills training and substance abuse treat23 ment for incarcerated juveniles; and

24 (B) provide assurances that juveniles in25 carcerated in a facility that is funded with a
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1 grant under this section will be provided with

2 intensive post-release supervision and services.

3 (d) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—Each Qualifying State to4 gether with units of local government within the State

5 shall be allocated for each fiscal year not less than 1.0

6 percent of the total amount appropriated for that fiscal

7 year for grants under subsection (c), except that the Unit8 ed States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the

9 Northern Mariana Islands shall each be allocated 0.2 per10 cent of that amount.

11 (e) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.—

12 (1) EVALUATION COMPONENTS.—

13 (A) IN GENERAL.—Each facility funded

14 under this section shall contain an evaluation

15 component developed pursuant to guidelines es16 tablished by the Administrator.

17 (B) OUTCOME MEASURES.—The evalua18 tions required by this subsection shall include

19 outcome measures that can be used to deter20 mine the effectiveness of the funded programs,

21 including the effectiveness of such programs in

22 comparison with other correctional programs or

23 dispositions in reducing the incidence of recidi24 vism.

25 (2) PERIODIC REVIEW AND REPORTS.—
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1 (A) REVIEW.—The Administrator shall re2 view the performance of each grant recipient

3 under this section.

4 (B) REPORTS.—The Administrator may

5 require a grant recipient to submit to the Office

6 of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

7 the results of the evaluations required under

8 paragraph (1) and such other data and infor9 mation as are reasonably necessary to carry out

10 the Administrator’s responsibilities under this

11 section.

12 (f) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.—The

13 Administrator may request that the Director of the Na14 tional Institute of Corrections and the Director of the Fed15 eral Bureau of Prisons provide technical assistance and

16 training to States and units of local government that re17 ceive grants under this section to achieve the purposes of

18 this section.

19 (g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—

20 ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Administrator of

21 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre22 vention Programs.

23 ‘‘Qualifying State’’ means a State that has sub24 mitted, or a State in which an eligible unit of local
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1 government has submitted, a grant application that

2 meets the requirements of subsections (c) and (e).

3 ‘‘State’’ means a State, the District of Colum4 bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United

5 States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and

6 the Northern Mariana Islands.

7 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

8 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec9 tion—

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 (1) $675,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;

21 (2) $900,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;

22 (3) $1,710,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;

23 (4) $1,800,000,000 for fiscal year 1999; and

24 (5) $1,863,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.

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