Improving Reentry for District of Columbia Residents in the Bureau of Prisons Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.9185 | Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes (D-DC)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Improving Reentry for District of Columbia Residents in the Bureau of Prisons Act of 2022
This bill requires, subject to limited exceptions, that the Bureau of Prisons place an individual who is convicted of a felony under DC laws and who is a resident of DC when sentenced at a facility within 250 miles of DC unless the individual requests or consents to a more distant placement.

To direct the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to place certain 
individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons within 250 miles of 
           the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Reentry for District of 
Columbia Residents in the Bureau of Prisons Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PLACEMENT NEAR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN 
              CUSTODY OF BUREAU OF PRISONS.

    (a) In General.--Beginning not later than two years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall 
not place a covered individual in a Bureau of Prisons facility that is 
located more than 250 miles from the District of Columbia, unless such 
individual requests or consents to such a placement.
    (b) Extraordinary Circumstances.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the 
        Director may place a covered individual in a Bureau of Prisons 
        facility that is more than 250 miles from the District of 
        Columbia if the Director determines that extraordinary 
        circumstances warrant such a placement.
            (2) Report required.--Not longer than 30 days after a 
        placement under paragraph (1), the Director shall provide a 
        written explanation to the covered congressional committees on 
        the extraordinary circumstances warranting such a placement.
    (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act may be constructed 
to prohibit the Director from placing a covered individual in 
prerelease custody pursuant to section 3624(g)(2) of title 18, United 
States Code, or on transferring an individual to begin a term of 
supervised release pursuant to section 3624(g)(3) of title 18, United 
States Code.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered congressional committees.--The term ``covered 
        congressional committees'' means the Committee on the Judiciary 
        and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of 
        Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary and the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
        Senate.
            (2) Covered individual.--The term ``covered individual'' 
        means an individual committed to the custody of the Bureau of 
        Prisons pursuant to chapter 1 of subtitle C of title XI of the 
        National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement 
        Act of 1997 (sec. 24-101 et seq., D.C. Official Code) who is a 
        resident of the District of Columbia at the time at which the 
        individual was sentenced.
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