uate education degree program or to remedial education 
services for students who have obtained a secondary school 
diploma or its recognized equivalent. Educational and re-
lated services shall start during the period of incarceration 
in prison or prerelease, and the related services may con-
tinue for not more than 1 year after release from confine-
ment. 
‘‘(g) EDUCATION DELIVERY SYSTEMS.—State cor-
rectional education agencies and cooperating institutions 
shall, to the extent practicable, use high-tech applications 
in developing programs to meet the requirements and 
goals of this section. 
‘‘(h) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—From the funds au-
thorized to be appropriated under subsection (i) for each 
fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State an 
amount that bears the same relationship to such funds 
as the total number of youth offenders eligible under sub-
section (e) in such State bears to the total number of such 
youth offenders in all States. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$30,000,000 for fiscal years 2012 and 2013.’’. 
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SEC. 115. IMPROVED REENTRY PROCEDURES FOR FED-
ERAL PRISONERS. 
(a) GENERAL REENTRY PROCEDURES.—The Attor-
ney General shall take such steps as are necessary to mod-
ify existing procedures and policies to enhance case plan-
ning and to improve the transition of offenders from the 
custody of the Bureau of Prisons to the community, in-
cluding placement of such individuals in community cor-
rections facilities. 
(b) PROCEDURES REGARDING BENEFITS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Bureau of Prisons shall 
establish reentry planning procedures within the Re-
lease Preparation Program that include providing 
Federal offenders with information relating to: 
(A) health and nutrition; 
(B) employment; 
(C) personal finance and consumer skills; 
(D) information and community resources; 
(E) release requirements and procedures; 
and 
(F) personal growth and development. 
(2) FORMAT.— 
(A) WRITTEN INFORMATION PROVIDED TO 
OFFENDERS.—Any written information that the 
Bureau of Prisons provides to offenders for re-
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entry planning purposes shall use common ter-
minology and language. 
(B) MEDICAL INFORMATION.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Bureau of 
Prisons shall provide the United States 
Probation and Pretrial Services System 
with relevant information on the medical 
care needs and the mental health treat-
ment needs of offenders scheduled for re-
lease and reentry into the community. 
(ii) CONSIDERATION
OF
INFORMA-
TION.—The United States Probation and 
Pretrial Services System shall take this in-
formation into account when developing 
supervision plans in an effort to address 
the medical care and mental health care 
needs of such offenders. 
(C) PROVISION
OF
MEDICATIONS.—The 
Bureau of Prisons shall provide offenders with 
a sufficient amount of all necessary medications 
upon release from custody. 
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Subtitle C—Economic 
Empowerment 
SEC. 121. EXPANSION AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE 
MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR SYSTEM IN-
VOLVED YOUTH. 
(a) EXPANSION.—Section 261(a) of the Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5665(a)) is amended by inserting at the end the following: 
‘‘The Administrator shall expand the number of sites re-
ceiving such grants from 4 to 12.’’ 
(b) REAUTHORIZATION.—Section 299 of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5671) is amended by striking subsection (c) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR PART 
E.—There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
part E $4,800,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012, 2013, 
2014, 2015, and 2016.’’. 
SEC. 122. REAUTHORIZATION OF LEARN AND SERVE AMER-
ICA. 
Section 501(a)(1)(A) of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12681(a)(1)(A)) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘subchapter I’’ and all that follows and in-
serting ‘‘subchapter I $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2012 through 2016.’’. 
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TITLE II—GANG ACTIVITY 
POLICING PROGRAM 
SEC. 201. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GANG ACTIVITY POLICING 
GRANTS. 
The Attorney General may make grants to States, 
units of local government, Indian tribes, other public and 
private entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional con-
sortia thereof to— 
(1) increase police presence; 
(2) expand and improve cooperative efforts be-
tween law enforcement agencies and members of the 
community to address gang activity problems; and 
(3) otherwise enhance public safety. 
SEC. 202. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
Grants made under this subtitle may include pro-
grams, projects, and other activities to— 
(1) rehire law enforcement officers who have 
been laid off as a result of State and local budget 
reductions for deployment to reduce gang activity; 
(2) hire and train additional career law enforce-
ment officers for deployment to reduce gang activity; 
(3) procure equipment, technology, or support 
systems, or pay overtime, to increase the number of 
officers deployed in gang activity policing; 
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(4) hire officers to perform intelligence activi-
ties to reduce gang activity; 
(5) increase the number of law enforcement of-
ficers involved in activities that are focused on inter-
action with members of the community or on 
proactive gang control and prevention by redeploying 
officers to such activities; 
(6) establish and implement innovative pro-
grams to increase and enhance proactive crime con-
trol and gang prevention programs involving law en-
forcement officers and young persons in the commu-
nity; 
(7) establish school-based partnerships between 
local law enforcement agencies and local school sys-
tems by using school resource officers who operate 
in and around elementary and secondary schools to 
combat gangs; 
(8) create and disseminate anti-gang campaigns 
through broadcast advertisements and materials to 
schools to highlight after school, educational, and 
recreational activities; 
(9) develop new technologies, including inter-
operable communications technologies, modernized 
criminal record technology, and forensic technology, 
to assist State and local law enforcement agencies in 
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reducing gang activity and to train law enforcement 
officers to use such technologies; and 
(10) support the purchase by law enforcement 
agencies of not more than 1 service weapon per offi-
cer, upon hiring for deployment in gang activity po-
licing or, if necessary, upon the initial redeployment 
of an officer to gang activity policing. 
SEC. 203. PREFERENTIAL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICA-
TIONS FOR CERTAIN GRANTS. 
In awarding grants under this subtitle, the Attorney 
General may give preferential consideration to appli-
cants— 
(1) for the hiring and rehiring of additional ca-
reer law enforcement officers that involve a non-Fed-
eral contribution exceeding the 25 percent minimum 
under this subtitle; 
(2) that are located in a high-intensity inter-
state gang activity area designated under section 
204; and 
(3) that coordinate with after-school programs, 
nonprofit organizations, schools, and community or-
ganizations to create municipal-wide alliances to 
suppress gang activity. 
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SEC. 204. DESIGNATION OF HIGH-INTENSITY INTERSTATE 
GANG ACTIVITY AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may, after 
consultation with the Governor of each affected State, des-
ignate a specific area that is located in not less than 1 
State as a high-intensity interstate gang activity area. 
(b) FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION.—In making a 
designation under subsection (a), the Attorney General 
shall consider the extent to which— 
(1) the area is a significant center of gang ac-
tivity; 
(2) State, local, and tribal law enforcement 
agencies have committed resources to respond to the 
gang crime problem in the area, thereby indicating 
a determination to respond aggressively to the prob-
lem; 
(3) gang activities in the area are having a sig-
nificant harmful impact in the area, and in other 
areas of the country; 
(4) a significant increase in allocation of Fed-
eral resources is necessary to respond adequately to 
gang-related activities in the area; and 
(5) any other criteria as the Director deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
(c) MERGING OF AREAS.—To the extent that the 
goals of a high-intensity interstate gang activity area over-
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lap with the goals of a high-intensity drug trafficking area 
designated under section 707 of the Office of the National 
Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1988 (21 
U.S.C. 1706), the Attorney General may merge the 2 
areas to serve both functions. 
(d) LOCAL COMMENT.—The Attorney General may 
not make a final designation under subsection (a) without 
consulting with and receiving comment from local elected 
officials representing communities within the affected 
States. 
SEC. 205. USE OF COMPONENTS. 
The Attorney General may use any component of the 
Department of Justice in carrying out this subtitle. 
SEC. 206. MINIMUM AMOUNT. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘quali-
fying State’’ means any State that has submitted an appli-
cation for a grant, or in which a unit of local government, 
Indian tribe, other public or private entity, or multijuris-
dictional or regional consortia thereof has submitted an 
application for a grant, that meets the requirements estab-
lished by the Attorney General under this subtitle. 
(b) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—Unless all applications sub-
mitted by any qualifying State and grantee within that 
State under this subtitle have been funded, each qualifying 
State, together with grantees within that State, shall re-
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ceive in each fiscal year under this subtitle an amount 
equal to not less than 0.5 percent of the total amount ap-
propriated in that fiscal year for grants under this sub-
title. 
SEC. 207. MATCHING FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of the costs of 
a program, project, or activity carried out with a grant 
under this subtitle shall be not more than 75 percent, un-
less the Attorney General waives, wholly or in part, the 
requirement under this section of a non-Federal contribu-
tion to the costs of a program, project, or activity. 
(b) HIRING.—For a grant for a period exceeding 1 
year for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement officers, 
the Federal share shall decrease each year for up to 5 
years, by an amount determined by the Attorney General, 
with a goal of the continuation of the increased hiring level 
using State or local sources of funding following the con-
clusion of Federal support. 
SEC. 208. PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FORENSIC EXAMINERS. 
Section 816 of the USA PATRIOT Act (28 U.S.C. 
509 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
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(B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (6); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) to hire additional forensic examiners to 
help with forensic work and to fight gang activity; 
and’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by amending paragraph 
(1) to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated $55,000,000 
for each fiscal year to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 209. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle $700,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2012 through 2016. Any amount appropriated under this 
section shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 210. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. 
(a) MONITORING COMPONENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each program, project, or 
activity funded under this title shall contain a moni-
toring component, developed in accordance with 
guidelines established by the Attorney General. 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—A monitoring component 
required under paragraph (1) shall include— 
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