I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3844 
To restrict the authority of the Attorney General to enter into contracts 
for Federal correctional facilities and community confinement facilities, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To restrict the authority of the Attorney General to enter 
into contracts for Federal correctional facilities and com-
munity confinement facilities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End For-Profit Pris-
ons Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF CONTRACTING FOR FEDERAL 
CORRECTIONAL 
FACILITIES 
AND 
COMMU-
NITY CONFINEMENT FACILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 301 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 4015. No contracting out of Federal prison facili-
ties or community confinement facilities 
‘‘(a) FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES GEN-
ERALLY.—Beginning on the date that is 6 years after the 
date of the enactment of the End For-Profit Prisons Act 
of 2017— 
‘‘(1) all core correctional services at each cor-
rectional facility which is used by the Bureau of 
Prisons for the confinement of persons serving sen-
tences of imprisonment for Federal offenses shall be 
performed by employees of the Federal Government; 
and 
‘‘(2) all core correctional services at each cor-
rectional facility which is used by the United States 
Marshals Service for the confinement of persons in 
the custody of the United States Marshals Service 
shall be performed by employees of the Federal Gov-
ernment, except that the United States Marshals 
Service may enter and maintain a contract with a 
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facility operated by a State or unit of local govern-
ment if— 
‘‘(A) the core correctional services at such 
correctional facility are performed by employees 
of such State or unit of local government; and 
‘‘(B) the facility meets all constitutional, 
Federal statutory, United States Marshals 
Service, and any applicable State or local stand-
ards. 
‘‘(b) FEDERAL COMMUNITY CONFINEMENT FACILI-
TIES.—Beginning on the date that is 8 years after the 
date of the enactment of the End For-Profit Prisons Act 
of 2017, the Bureau of Prisons shall not enter into or 
maintain any contract with any for-profit entity to provide 
or manage any community confinement facility. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘community confinement facility’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 115.5 of 
title 28, Code of Federal Regulations. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘core correctional services’ means 
the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and dis-
ciplining of individuals charged with or convicted of 
an offense.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 301 of title 18, United States 
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tion of each correctional facility which is used by the 
United States Marshals Service for the confinement of 
persons in the custody of the United States Marshals 
Service to ensure that each such facility meets all constitu-
tional, Federal statutory, United States Marshals Service, 
and any other applicable standards, including any State 
or local standards. 
SEC. 7. DUTIES OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RELATING TO 
THE RELEASE OF FEDERAL PRISONERS. 
Section 3624 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) PROVISION
OF
INFORMATION
AND
COUN-
SELING.—The Attorney General shall make rules to as-
sure that each prisoner released from Federal custody 
upon the expiration of that prisoner’s term of imprison-
ment for an offense, including a prisoner who resides in 
a community confinement facility (as such term is defined 
in section 4015), receives information and appropriate 
counseling about each of the following: 
‘‘(1) Any right the prisoner may have to have 
the prisoner’s criminal record expunged. 
‘‘(2) The availability of programs to remove em-
ployment barriers. 
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‘‘(3) Relevant vocational and educational reha-
bilitation programs that are available to the pris-
oner. 
‘‘(4) A detailed record of participation in edu-
cational, employment and treatment programs com-
pleted while incarcerated. 
‘‘(5) Assistance with applications for the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) Programs providing nutritional as-
sistance. 
‘‘(B) Medicaid. 
‘‘(C) Social Security. 
‘‘(D) Driver’s license. 
‘‘(E) Registering to vote.’’. 
SEC. 8. DUTIES OF BUREAU OF PRISONS REGARDING RE-
LEASED PRISONERS. 
Section 4042 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) REQUIREMENTS WITH RESPECT TO RELEASED 
PRISONERS.—In carrying out the duties set forth in sub-
section (a)(D) and (a)(E), the Bureau of Prisons shall en-
sure that each prisoner receives information and coun-
seling during prerelease procedures regarding each area 
described in subsection (a)(D) and (a)(E). In addition, the 
Bureau shall provide each released prisoner, including a 
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prisoner who resides in a community confinement facility 
(as such term is defined in section 4015), with information 
regarding fines, assessments, surcharges, restitution, 
other penalties due from the prisoner in connection with 
the conviction, which it shall be the duty of the appro-
priate judicial officers to provide to the Bureau.’’. 
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