and encourage youth offenders to acquire functional 
literacy, life, and job skills, through— 
‘‘(A) the pursuit of a postsecondary edu-
cation certificate, or an associate or bachelor’s 
degree while in prison; and 
‘‘(B) employment counseling and other re-
lated services which start during incarceration 
and end not later than 1 year after release from 
confinement; and 
‘‘(2) may establish such performance objectives 
and reporting requirements for State correctional 
education agencies receiving grants under this sec-
tion as the Secretary determines are necessary to as-
sess the effectiveness of the program under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To be eligible for a grant under 
this section, a State correctional education agency shall 
submit to the Secretary a proposal for a youth offender 
program that— 
‘‘(1) identifies the scope of the problem, includ-
ing the number of youth offenders in need of post-
secondary education and career and technical edu-
cation; 
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‘‘(2) lists the accredited public or private edu-
cational institution or institutions that will provide 
postsecondary educational services; 
‘‘(3) lists the cooperating agencies, public and 
private, or businesses that will provide related serv-
ices, such as counseling in the areas of career devel-
opment, substance abuse, health, and parenting 
skills; 
‘‘(4) describes specific performance objectives 
and evaluation methods (in addition to, and con-
sistent with, any objectives established by the Sec-
retary under subsection (b)(2)) that the State cor-
rectional education agency will use in carrying out 
its proposal, including— 
‘‘(A) specific and quantified student out-
come measures that are compared with out-
comes for non-program participants with simi-
lar demographic characteristics; and 
‘‘(B) measures, consistent with the data 
elements and definitions described in subsection 
(d)(1)(A), of— 
‘‘(i) program completion, including an 
explicit definition of what constitutes a 
program completion within the proposal; 
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‘‘(ii) knowledge and skill attainment, 
including specification of instruments that 
will measure knowledge and skill attain-
ment; 
‘‘(iii) attainment of employment both 
before and after release; 
‘‘(iv) success in employment indicated 
by job retention and advancement; and 
‘‘(v) recidivism, including such sub-
indicators as time before subsequent of-
fense and severity of subsequent offense; 
‘‘(5) describes how the proposed programs are 
to be integrated with existing State correctional edu-
cation programs (such as adult education, graduate 
education degree programs, and career and technical 
education) and State industry programs; 
‘‘(6) describes how the proposed programs will 
utilize technology to deliver the services under this 
section; and 
‘‘(7) describes how students will be selected so 
that only youth offenders eligible under subsection 
(e) will be enrolled in a program receiving a grant 
under this section. 
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‘‘(d) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Each State correc-
tional education agency receiving a grant under this sec-
tion shall— 
‘‘(1) annually report to the Secretary regard-
ing— 
‘‘(A) the results of the evaluations con-
ducted using data elements and definitions pro-
vided by the Secretary for the use of State cor-
rectional education programs; 
‘‘(B) any objectives or requirements estab-
lished by the Secretary pursuant to subsection 
(b)(2); and 
‘‘(C) the additional performance objectives 
and evaluation methods contained in the pro-
posal described in subsection (c)(4), as nec-
essary to document the attainment of project 
performance objectives; and 
‘‘(2) expend on each participating eligible stu-
dent for an academic year, not more than the max-
imum Federal Pell Grant appropriated under section 
401 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for such 
academic year, which shall be used for— 
‘‘(A) tuition, books, and essential mate-
rials; and 
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‘‘(B) related services such as career devel-
opment, substance abuse counseling, parenting 
skills training, and health education. 
‘‘(e) STUDENT ELIGIBILITY.—A youth offender shall 
be eligible for participation in a program receiving a grant 
under this section if the youth offender— 
‘‘(1) is eligible to be released within 5 years (in-
cluding a youth offender who is eligible for parole 
within such time); and 
‘‘(2) is 35 years of age or younger. 
‘‘(f) LENGTH OF PARTICIPATION.—A State correc-
tional education agency receiving a grant under this sec-
tion shall provide educational and related services to each 
participating youth offender for a period not to exceed 5 
years, 1 year of which may be devoted to study in a grad-
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 
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in developing programs to meet the requirements and 
goals of this section. 
‘‘(h) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—From the funds ap-
propriated pursuant to 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 subsection (e) 
in such State bears to the total number of such youth of-
fenders in all States. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$30,000,000 for fiscal years 2008 and 2009.’’. 
SEC. 123. 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 
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Federal offenders with information in the following 
areas: 
(A) Health and nutrition. 
(B) Employment. 
(C) Personal finance and consumer skills. 
(D) Information and community resources. 
(E) Release requirements and procedures. 
(F) Personal growth and development. 
(2) FORMAT.—Any written information that the 
Bureau of Prisons provides to offenders for reentry 
planning purposes shall use common terminology 
and language. 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 
offenders scheduled for release and reentry into the 
community. The United States Probation and Pre-
trial Services System shall take this information into 
account when developing supervision plans in an ef-
fort to address the medical care and mental health 
care needs of such offenders. 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. 131. 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 ‘‘fiscal year 1994 and such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 through 
1996’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2008 and each of the 
5 succeeding fiscal years’’. 
SEC. 132. JOB CORPS. 
Section 161 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 
(29 U.S.C. 2901) is amended by striking ‘‘such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1999 through 
2003’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$1,800,000,000 
(of 
which 
$300,000,000 shall be designated to create additional Job 
Corps centers, especially in high gang activity areas) for 
each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012’’. 
SEC. 133. WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT YOUTH ACTIVI-
TIES. 
Section 137(a) of the Workforce Investment Act of 
1998 (29 U.S.C. 2872(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘such 
sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 1999 
through 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,000,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2008 through 2012’’. 
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SEC. 134. 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 2008, 2009, 
2010, 2011, and 2012.’’. 
TITLE 
II—SUPPRESSION 
AND 
COMMUNITY ANTI-GANG INI-
TIATIVES 
Subtitle A—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-
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sortia thereof to increase police presence, to expand and 
improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agen-
cies and members of the community to address gang activ-
ity problems, and to 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; 
(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-
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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) develop new technologies, including inter-
operable communications technologies, modernized 
criminal record technology, and forensic technology, 
to assist State and local law enforcement agencies in 
reducing gang activity and to train law enforcement 
officers to use such technologies; and 
(9) 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 hiring and rehiring additional career law 
enforcement officers that involve a non-Federal con-
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