Emergency Community Supervision Act

2020-03-25

Introduced in Senate

Emergency Community Supervision Act

This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.

Specifically, it does the following:

requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
limits the use of pretrial detention; and
modifies supervised release, including to limit the use of incarceration as a sanction for a parole violation.

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