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(i) IN GENERAL.—At the end of each fiscal year, 
the Director shall submit to the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report 
containing statistics demonstrating the relative reduc-
tion in recidivism for inmates released by the Bureau 
of Prisons within that fiscal year and the 2 prior fiscal 
years, comparing inmates who participated in major 
inmate programs (including residential drug treatment, 
vocational training, and prison industries) with 
inmates who did not participate in such programs. 
Such statistics shall be compiled separately for each 
such fiscal year. 
(ii) SCOPE.—A report under this paragraph is not 
required to include statistics for a fiscal year that 
begins before the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(B) MEASURE USED.—In preparing the reports required 
by subparagraph (A), the Director shall, in consultation 
with the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, select 
a measure for recidivism (such as rearrest, reincarceration, 
or any other valid, evidence-based measure) that the 
Director considers appropriate and that is consistent with 
the research undertaken by the Bureau of Justice Statistics 
under section 241(b)(6). 
(C) GOALS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—After the Director submits the 
first report required by subparagraph (A), the Director 
shall establish goals for reductions in recidivism rates 
and shall work to attain those goals. 
(ii) CONTENTS.—The goals established under clause 
(i) shall use the relative reductions in recidivism meas-
ured for the fiscal year covered by the first report 
required by subparagraph (A) as a baseline rate, and 
shall include— 
(I) a 5-year goal to increase, at a minimum, 
the baseline relative reduction rate of recidivism 
by 2 percent; and 
(II) a 10-year goal to increase, at a minimum, 
the baseline relative reduction rate of recidivism 
by 5 percent within 10 fiscal years. 
(4) FORMAT.—Any written information that the Bureau 
of Prisons provides to inmates for reentry planning purposes 
shall use common terminology and language. 
(5) MEDICAL CARE.—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 treatment needs of inmates scheduled for release from 
custody. The United States Probation and Pretrial Services 
System shall take this information into account when devel-
oping supervision plans in an effort to address the medical 
care and mental health care needs of such individuals. The 
Bureau of Prisons shall provide inmates with a sufficient 
amount of all necessary medications (which will normally con-
sist of, at a minimum, a 2-week supply of such medications) 
upon release from custody. 
(e) ENCOURAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT OF FORMER PRISONERS.— 
The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor,
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shall take such steps as are necessary to educate employers and 
the one-stop partners and one-stop operators (as such terms are 
defined in section 101 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 
(29 U.S.C. 2801)) that provide services at any center operated 
under a one-stop delivery system established under section 134(c) 
of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2864(c)) 
regarding incentives (including the Federal bonding program of 
the Department of Labor and tax credits) for hiring former Federal, 
State, or local prisoners. 
(f) MEDICAL CARE FOR PRISONERS.—Section 3621 of title 18, 
United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) CONTINUED ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to ensure a minimum standard 
of health and habitability, the Bureau of Prisons should ensure 
that each prisoner in a community confinement facility has 
access to necessary medical care, mental health care, and medi-
cine through partnerships with local health service providers 
and transition planning. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term ‘community 
confinement’ has the meaning given that term in the application 
notes under section 5F1.1 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines 
Manual, as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Second 
Chance Act of 2007.’’. 
(g) ELDERLY AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION FOR CERTAIN NON-
VIOLENT OFFENDERS PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall conduct 
a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of removing 
eligible elderly offenders from a Bureau of Prisons facility 
and placing such offenders on home detention until the 
expiration of the prison term to which the offender was 
sentenced. 
(B) PLACEMENT IN HOME DETENTION.—In carrying out 
a pilot program as described in subparagraph (A), the 
Attorney General may release some or all eligible elderly 
offenders from the Bureau of Prisons facility to home deten-
tion. 
(C) WAIVER.—The Attorney General is authorized to 
waive the requirements of section 3624 of title 18, United 
States Code, as necessary to provide for the release of 
some or all eligible elderly offenders from the Bureau of 
Prisons facility to home detention for the purposes of the 
pilot program under this subsection. 
(2) VIOLATION OF TERMS OF HOME DETENTION.—A violation 
by an eligible elderly offender of the terms of home detention 
(including the commission of another Federal, State, or local 
crime) shall result in the removal of that offender from home 
detention and the return of that offender to the designated 
Bureau of Prisons institution in which that offender was impris-
oned immediately before placement on home detention under 
paragraph (1), or to another appropriate Bureau of Prisons 
institution, as determined by the Bureau of Prisons. 
(3) SCOPE OF PILOT PROGRAM.—A pilot program under para-
graph (1) shall be conducted through at least one Bureau of
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Prisons facility designated by the Attorney General as appro-
priate for the pilot program and shall be carried out during 
fiscal years 2009 and 2010. 
(4) IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall monitor and evaluate each eligible elderly offender 
placed on home detention under this section, and shall report 
to Congress concerning the experience with the program at 
the end of the period described in paragraph (3). The Adminis-
trative Office of the United States Courts and the United 
States probation offices shall provide such assistance and carry 
out such functions as the Attorney General may request in 
monitoring, supervising, providing services to, and evaluating 
eligible elderly offenders released to home detention under this 
section. 
(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(A) ELIGIBLE ELDERLY OFFENDER.—The term ‘‘eligible 
elderly offender’’ means an offender in the custody of the 
Bureau of Prisons— 
(i) who is not less than 65 years of age; 
(ii) who is serving a term of imprisonment that 
is not life imprisonment based on conviction for an 
offense or offenses that do not include any crime of 
violence (as defined in section 16 of title 18, United 
States Code), sex offense (as defined in section 111(5) 
of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act), 
offense described in section 2332b(g)(5)(B) of title 18, 
United States Code, or offense under chapter 37 of 
title 18, United States Code, and has served the greater 
of 10 years or 75 percent of the term of imprisonment 
to which the offender was sentenced; 
(iii) who has not been convicted in the past of 
any Federal or State crime of violence, sex offense, 
or other offense described in clause (ii); 
(iv) who has not been determined by the Bureau 
of Prisons, on the basis of information the Bureau 
uses to make custody classifications, and in the sole 
discretion of the Bureau, to have a history of violence, 
or of engaging in conduct constituting a sex offense 
or other offense described in clause (ii); 
(v) who has not escaped, or attempted to escape, 
from a Bureau of Prisons institution; 
(vi) with respect to whom the Bureau of Prisons 
has determined that release to home detention under 
this section will result in a substantial net reduction 
of costs to the Federal Government; and 
(vii) who has been determined by the Bureau of 
Prisons to be at no substantial risk of engaging in 
criminal conduct or of endangering any person or the 
public if released to home detention. 
(B) HOME DETENTION.—The term ‘‘home detention’’ has 
the same meaning given the term in the Federal Sentencing 
Guidelines as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and includes detention in a nursing home or other residen-
tial long-term care facility. 
(C) TERM
OF
IMPRISONMENT.—The term ‘‘term of 
imprisonment’’ includes multiple terms of imprisonment 
ordered to run consecutively or concurrently, which shall