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SEC. 309. INCREASED PENALTIES AND EXPANDED JURIS-
DICTION FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OFFENSES IN
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
(a) EXPANDED JURISDICTION.—The following provi-
sions of title 18, United States Code, are each amended
by inserting ‘‘or in the custody of the Attorney General
or the Bureau of Prisons or any institution or facility in
which the person is confined by direction of the Attorney
General,’’ after ‘‘in a Federal prison,’’:
(1) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2241.
(2) The first sentence of subsection (c) of sec-
tion 2241.
(3) Section 2242.
(4) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2243.
(5) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2244.
(b) INCREASED PENALTIES.—
(1) SEXUAL
ABUSE
OF
A
WARD.—Section
2243(b) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘one
year’’ and inserting ‘‘five years’’.
(2) ABUSIVE SEXUAL CONTACT.—Section 2244
of such title is amended by striking ‘‘six months’’
and inserting ‘‘two years’’ in each of subsections
(a)(4) and (b).
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SEC. 310. EXPANDED JURISDICTION FOR CONTRABAND OF-
FENSES IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
Section 1791(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended in each of paragraphs (1) and (2) by inserting
‘‘or an individual in the custody of the Attorney General
or the Bureau of Prisons or any institution or facility in
which the person is confined by direction of the Attorney
General’’ after ‘‘an inmate of a prison’’.
SEC. 311. MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE
PRELIMINARY HEARING.
The second sentence of section 3060(c) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ‘‘In
the absence of such consent of the accused, the judge or
magistrate judge may extend the time limits only on a
showing that extraordinary circumstances exist and justice
requires the delay.’’.
SEC. 312. RECOGNIZING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
FOUNDING OF THE LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW AND SUP-
PORTING THE DESIGNATION OF AN EQUAL
JUSTICE DAY.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) on June 21, 1963, President John F. Ken-
nedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy con-
vened 244 members of the National, State, and local
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private bar to provide legal representation to remedy
racial discrimination against minority communities;
(2) without President Kennedy’s vision for ra-
cial justice, the bar would have remained silent in
the face of vocal resistance by Southern State legis-
latures against desegregation;
(3) for more than 4 decades, the Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (hereinafter
in this section referred to as ‘‘Lawyers’ Committee’’)
has worked to advance the civil rights of African-
Americans and other racial and ethnic minority com-
munities in the areas of environmental protection,
employment, affirmative action, fair housing, edu-
cation, and voting;
(4) the Lawyers’ Committee operated an office
in Jackson, Mississippi, from 1964 through 1984,
which filed numerous cases that transformed the
State, including the defense of civil rights dem-
onstrators, desegregation of many public institutions
and workforces, reformation of the notorious
Parchman Prison, and numerous voting rights cases
resulting in a revolution in the number of African-
American elected officials in State positions and
Congress;
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(5) the Lawyers’ Committee fought for passage
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act
of 1965 and the 1982 Amendments, Fair Housing
Act of 1988, Civil Rights Act of 1991, and National
Voter Registration Act of 1993;
(6) the Lawyers’ Committee secured a land-
mark, unanimous United States Supreme Court de-
cision that strengthened first amendment protections
for peaceful political boycotts in Claiborne Hardware
Co. v. NAACP;
(7) the Lawyers’ Committee created a police
community relations program in 1965 that recruited
African-Americans for law enforcement positions and
eased tensions between law enforcement officers and
African-American communities;
(8) the Lawyers’ Committee defended the stu-
dents of Jackson State University following police
shootings upon a peaceful demonstration that killed
2 persons and wounded a dozen others;
(9) the Lawyers’ Committee operated its Cairo,
Illinois office from 1969 through 1972 in response
to intense racial unrest and police brutality in the
city;
(10) the Lawyers’ Committee recruited attor-
neys from the local bar to represent African-Ameri-
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cans who could not obtain legal counsel during the
1960s;
(11) the Lawyers’ Committee transformed Afri-
can-American voting strength by litigating critical
cases throughout the South to oppose archaic voter
discrimination laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests
that prevented African-Americans from registering
and voting;
(12) the Lawyers’ Committee launched the
Urban Areas Project in 1968, which resulted in local
independent Lawyers’ Committee offices in Philadel-
phia, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco,
Denver, San Antonio, and Washington, D.C.;
(13) the Lawyers’ Committee developed the
Southern African Project, which provided legal as-
sistance to thousands of political detainees and tech-
nical assistance in resisting pro-apartheid legislation
for more than 20 years and which monitored elec-
tions in Namibia in 1989 and elections in South Af-
rica in 1994;
(14) the Lawyers’ Committee led the defense of
Executive Order 11246 when it was attacked during
the Reagan Administration in the 1980s;
(15) the Lawyers’ Committee litigated a series
of cases from the 1970s to the present that deseg-