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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1760
To amend the Job Corps program of the Job Training Partnership Act
to establish a program to provide education and job training services
to youths who have been convicted of non-violent criminal offenses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 21, 1993
Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr.
FROST, and Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To amend the Job Corps program of the Job Training Part-
nership Act to establish a program to provide education
and job training services to youths who have been con-
victed of non-violent criminal offenses.
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 ‘‘Job Corps Youth Sen-
tencing Alternative for Vocational Education and Training
Act’’ or the ‘‘YOUTHSAVE Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) Over 1,000,000 offenders are incarcerated
in the Nation’s prisons and jails, and Federal and
State correctional systems face severe prison over-
crowding.
(2) The annual costs of incarceration range as
high as $36,000 per inmate and represent one of the
fastest growing expenses facing States.
(3) Most juvenile offenders, regardless of the
seriousness of their crimes, are released at the age
of 21, and are poorly educated, unskilled, and unpre-
pared to enter the workforce.
(4) Research on crime prevention shows that
early intervention directed at first-time offenders is
essential to helping them avoid a lifetime of crime.
(5) Studies have shown that inmates who re-
ceive job training in prison are 3 times less likely to
return to jail after being released than their counter-
parts who do not receive job training.
(6) The current system of juvenile incarceration
usually serves to warehouse offenders without pro-
viding effective counseling, education, and job train-
ing necessary to reorient youth inmates away from
crime.
(7) Successful efforts to educate and train con-
victed youths could result in substantial cost savings
in terms of reduced crime, incarceration, public as-
sistance, and in higher payroll tax revenues.
(8) The Job Corps program, authorized under
part B of title IV of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.), is the Nation’s only
residential education and vocational training pro-
gram targeted to serve low-income youth who face
multiple barriers to becoming economically self-suffi-
cient.
(9) The Job Corps program has a documented
record of success during its 29 years of operation,
including a 75 percent placement rate of successfully
helping graduates obtain permanent employment, re-
turn to school, or enter the armed services, and such
program returns $1.46 on every $1.00 invested in
the program.
(10) Eligibility requirements of the Job Corps
program limit the participation of youths with cer-
tain behavioral problems and youths who are being
adjudicated or have been convicted of crimes.
(11) Under section 433(a)(3) of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1703(a)(3)), the
Secretary of Labor is authorized to undertake one or
more pilot projects designed to involve youths who
have a history of behavioral problems in order to
provide these youths with the education, job train-
ing, and counseling services that have proved so suc-
cessful among regular Job Corps participants.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to establish separate Job Corps Youthsave
centers for youths who have been convicted of non-
violent criminal offenses which shall be an alter-
native sentencing option for such youths;
(2) to provide youth offenders at such centers
with intensive counseling, education, and job train-
ing in order to help them become self-sufficient
members of society; and
(3) to provide a disciplined environment at such
centers in which youth offenders can receive maxi-
mum benefit from regular Job Corps services and
other services geared specifically to the needs of
such offenders.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOB CORPS YOUTHSAVE PRO-
GRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title IV of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) is
amended by inserting after section 433A the following new
section: