(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2011 through 2015. 
Subtitle B—Recidivism Reduction 
and Reentry Assistance 
SEC. 111. REAUTHORIZATION OF ADULT AND JUVENILE OF-
FENDER STATE AND LOCAL REENTRY DEM-
ONSTRATION PROJECTS. 
Section 2976(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(b)) is amend-
ed by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) establishing or improving the system or 
systems under which offenders awaiting reentry into 
the community are provided with documents useful 
in achieving a successful transition from prison, jail, 
or detention (such as identification papers, referrals 
to services, medical prescriptions, job training cer-
tificates, apprenticeship papers, and information on 
obtaining public assistance); 
‘‘(2) carrying out programs and initiatives by 
units of local government to strengthen reentry serv-
ices for offenders released from local jails; 
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‘‘(3) providing structured post-release housing 
and transitional housing (including group homes for 
recovering substance abusers) through which offend-
ers are provided supervision and services imme-
diately following reentry into the community; 
‘‘(4) assisting offenders in securing permanent 
housing upon release or following a stay in transi-
tional housing; 
‘‘(5) assisting offenders in leaving a criminal 
street gang; 
‘‘(6) providing offenders who have left a crimi-
nal street gang with safety services upon release 
from prison, jail, or detention; 
‘‘(7) providing offenders with education, job 
training, responsible parenting and healthy relation-
ship skills training designed specifically for address-
ing the needs of incarcerated and transitioning fa-
thers and mothers, English as a second language 
programs, work experience programs, self-respect 
and life skills training, and other skills useful in 
achieving a successful transition from prison or jail; 
‘‘(8) facilitating collaboration among corrections 
and community corrections, technical schools, com-
munity colleges, and the workforce development and 
employment service sectors— 
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‘‘(A) to promote the employment of offend-
ers released from prison and jail, as appro-
priate, through efforts such as educating em-
ployers about existing financial incentives; 
‘‘(B) to facilitate the creation of job oppor-
tunities for offenders released from prison or 
jail, including transitional jobs and time-limited 
subsidized work experience (as appropriate); 
and 
‘‘(C) to connect offenders to employment 
(including supportive employment and employ-
ment services) before their release to the com-
munity, to provide work supports (including 
transportation and retention services), as ap-
propriate, and to identify labor market needs to 
ensure that education and training are appro-
priate; 
‘‘(9) developing programs and activities that 
support parent-child relationships, such as— 
‘‘(A) using videoconferencing to allow vir-
tual visitation when incarcerated offenders are 
more than 100 miles from their families; 
‘‘(B) the establishment of family days, 
which provide for longer visitation hours or 
family activities; 
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‘‘(C) the implementation of programs to 
help incarcerated parents stay connected to 
their children and learn responsible parenting 
and healthy relationship skills; and 
‘‘(D) programs for mentoring children of 
incarcerated offenders; 
‘‘(10) expanding family-based treatment centers 
that offer family-based comprehensive treatment 
services for offenders reentering the community; 
‘‘(11) conducting studies to determine the types 
of offenders who are returning to prison or jail, and 
which of those returning offenders represent the 
greatest risk to community safety; 
‘‘(12) developing and implementing procedures 
to assist relevant authorities— 
‘‘(A) in determining when release is appro-
priate; and 
‘‘(B) in the use of data to inform the re-
lease decision; 
‘‘(13) developing and implementing procedures 
to identify efficiently and effectively those violators 
of probation, parole, or post-incarceration super-
vision who should be returned to prison or jail; and 
‘‘(14) establishing or expanding the use of re-
entry courts and other programs to— 
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‘‘(A) monitor offenders returning to the 
community; 
‘‘(B) provide offenders reentering the com-
munity with— 
‘‘(i) drug and alcohol testing and 
treatment; and 
‘‘(ii) mental and medical health as-
sessment and services; 
‘‘(C) facilitate restorative justice practices 
and convene family or community impact pan-
els, family impact educational classes, victim 
impact panels, or victim impact educational 
classes; and 
‘‘(D) provide and coordinate the delivery of 
other community services to offenders, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(i) housing assistance; 
‘‘(ii) education; 
‘‘(iii) employment training; 
‘‘(iv) conflict resolution skills training; 
‘‘(v) family violence intervention pro-
grams; 
‘‘(vi) culturally and linguistically com-
petent services, as appropriate; and 
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‘‘(vii) other appropriate services, as 
determined by the Attorney General. 
‘‘(c) TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND AC-
TIVITIES RELATING TO REENTRY OF OFFENDERS.— 
‘‘(1) TASK
FORCE
REQUIRED.—The Attorney 
General, in consultation with the Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, 
the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the heads of 
such other elements of the Federal Government as 
the Attorney General considers appropriate, and in 
collaboration with States, units of local government, 
territories, tribes, stakeholders, service providers, 
and nonprofit organizations, shall establish an inter-
agency task force on Federal programs and activities 
relating to the reentry of offenders into the commu-
nity. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.—The task force established 
under paragraph (1) shall— 
‘‘(A) identify any reentry program or activ-
ity that may be resulting in overlapping or du-
plication of reentry services, the scope of such 
overlapping or duplication, and the relationship 
of such overlapping and duplication to public 
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safety, public health, and effectiveness and effi-
ciency; 
‘‘(B) identify methods to improve collabo-
ration and coordination programs and activities 
identified in subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(C) identify areas of responsibility in 
which improved collaboration and coordination 
of programs and activities identified in subpara-
graph (A) would result in increased effective-
ness or efficiency; 
‘‘(D) develop innovative interagency or 
intergovernmental programs, activities, or pro-
cedures that would improve outcomes of offend-
ers reentering the community and the children 
of offenders; 
‘‘(E) develop methods for increasing reg-
ular communication that would increase inter-
agency program effectiveness; 
‘‘(F) identify areas of research that can be 
coordinated across agencies with an emphasis 
on applying science-based practices to support, 
treatment, and intervention programs for of-
fenders reentering the community; 
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‘‘(G) identify funding areas that should be 
coordinated across agencies, and any gaps in 
funding for reentry services; and 
‘‘(H) identify successful reentry programs 
and collect best practices in offender reentry 
from demonstration grantees and other agencies 
and organizations, determine the extent to 
which such programs and practices can be rep-
licated, and make information on such pro-
grams and practices available to States, local-
ities, nonprofit organizations, and others. 
‘‘(3) REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of the Fighting 
Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2010, the 
task force established under paragraph (1) shall 
submit to Congress a report on barriers to re-
entry of offenders to the community, including 
recommendations to overcome any barriers 
identified. 
‘‘(B) PUBLIC COMMENT.—The task force 
shall solicit and incorporate for public comment 
in preparing the report required in subpara-
graph (A). 
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‘‘(C) CONTENTS.—The report required by 
subparagraph (A) shall identify Federal and 
other barriers to successful reentry of offenders 
into the community and analyze the effects of 
the barriers on offenders and on children and 
other family members of offenders, including 
barriers relating to— 
‘‘(i) child support obligations and pro-
cedures; 
‘‘(ii) Social Security benefits (includ-
ing barriers in timely restoration of sus-
pended 
disability 
benefits 
immediately 
upon release), veterans benefits, food 
stamps, and other forms of Federal public 
assistance; 
‘‘(iii) Medicaid and Medicare laws, 
regulations, guidelines or procedures (in-
cluding barriers in timely restoration of 
benefits caused by delay in reinstatement 
of suspended Social Security disability ben-
efits); 
‘‘(iv) education programs, financial 
assistance, and full civic participation; 
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‘‘(v) temporary assistance to needy 
families (TANF) program funding criteria 
and other welfare benefits; 
‘‘(vi) sustainable employment and ca-
reer advancement, including barriers that 
are not directly connected to the crime 
committed and the risk that the offender 
presents to the community; 
‘‘(vii) laws, regulations, rules, and 
practices that restrict Federal employment 
licensure and participation in Federal con-
tracting programs; 
‘‘(viii) admissions to and evictions 
from Federal housing programs, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(I) examining the number and 
characteristics of offenders who are 
evicted from or denied eligibility for 
Federal housing programs; 
‘‘(II) the effect of eligibility deni-
als and evictions on homelessness, 
family stability, and family reunifica-
tion; 
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‘‘(III) the extent to which arrest 
records are the basis for denying ap-
plications; 
‘‘(IV) the implications of consid-
ering misdemeanor convictions that 
occurred more than 5 years before the 
date of an application and felony con-
victions that occurred more than 10 
years before the date of an applica-
tion, and the appropriateness of tak-
ing into account rehabilitation and 
other mitigating factors; and 
‘‘(V) the feasibility of using pro-
bationary or conditional eligibility 
based on participation in a supervised 
rehabilitation program or other appro-
priate social services; 
‘‘(ix) reentry procedures, case plan-
ning, and transitions of offenders from the 
custody of the Bureau of Prisons to a Fed-
eral parole or probation program, or to 
community corrections; 
‘‘(x) laws, regulations, rules, and 
practices that may require a parolee to re-
turn to the same county that the parolee 
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the communities in which the approaches have been 
carried out. 
(2) CONTENTS.—A report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall describe the extent and effective-
ness to which the various approaches have— 
(A) reduced recorded crime and disorder 
incidents related to criminal street gangs; 
(B) reduced public fear and perceptions 
about criminal street gangs; 
(C) reduced calls for police service related 
to criminal street gangs; 
(D) reduced criminal street gang homi-
cides; 
(E) reduced criminal street gang drug 
crimes; and 
(F) improved perceptions of safety among 
neighborhood youth, other community members, 
and local merchants. 
TITLE III—PUNISHMENT AND 
IMPROVED CRIME DATA 
Subtitle A—Gang Crimes 
SEC. 301. CRIMINAL STREET GANGS. 
(a) CRIMINAL STREET GANG PROSECUTIONS.—Sec-
tion 521 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
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