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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3968
To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration of violent repeat
offenders and to manage the problems associated with overcapacity in
correctional facilities and programs and to support comprehensive pro-
grams that will reduce the rate of recidivism.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 8, 1994
Mr. HUGHES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration
of violent repeat offenders and to manage the problems
associated with overcapacity in correctional facilities and
programs and to support comprehensive programs that
will reduce the rate of recidivism.
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 ‘‘Violent Repeat
Offender Incarceration Act’’.
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
(a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General
may make grants to individual States and to States, orga-
nized as multi-State compacts, to develop, expand, modify,
or improve correctional facilities and programs to ensure
that prison cell space is available for the confinement of
violent repeat offenders.
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this Act a State or States, organized as multi-State
compacts, shall submit an application to the Attorney
General which includes—
(1) assurances that the State or States, have
implemented, or will implement, correctional policies
and programs that are designed to provide suffi-
ciently severe punishment for violent repeat offend-
ers and that the prison time served is appropriately
related to the determination that the inmate is a vio-
lent repeat offender and for a period of time deemed
necessary to protect the public;
(2) assurances that the State or States have
implemented policies that provide for the recognition
of the rights and needs of crime victims;
(3) assurances that funds received under this
Act will be used to develop, expand, modify, or im-
prove correctional facilities and programs to ensure
that prison cell space is available for the confine-
ment of violent repeat offenders;
(4) assurances that the State or States have a
comprehensive correctional plan which represents an
integrated approach to the management and oper-
ation of correctional facilities and programs and
which includes diversional programs, particularly
drug diversion programs, community corrections
programs, a prisoner screening and security classi-
fication system, prisoner rehabilitation and treat-
ment programs, prisoner work activities and job
skills programs, a pre-release prisoner assessment to
provide risk reduction management, post-release as-
sistance, and an assessment of recidivism rates;
(5) assurances that funds received under this
section will be used to supplement, not supplant,
other Federal, State, and local funds; and
(6) documentation of the multi-State compact
agreement that specifies the development, expansion,
modification, or improvement of correctional facili-
ties and programs.
(c) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Federal share
of a grant received under this Act may not exceed 75 per-
cent of the costs of a proposal described in an application
approved under this Act.
SEC. 3. RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The Attorney General shall issue rules and regula-
tions regarding the uses of grant funds received under this
Act not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.
The Attorney General may request that the Director
of the National Institute of Corrections and the Director
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons provide technical assist-
ance and training to a State or States that receive a grant
under this Act to achieve the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 5. EVALUATION.
The Attorney General may request the Director of
the National Institute of Corrections to assist with an
evaluation of programs established with funds under this
Act.
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated
$600,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 through
1998 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
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