[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3968 Introduced in House (IH)]

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 programs that will reduce the rate of recidivism.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 1994

  Mr. Hughes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 Representatives 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, organized 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 sufficiently severe punishment for violent 
        repeat offenders and that the prison time served is 
        appropriately related to the determination that the inmate is a 
        violent 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 improve correctional 
        facilities and programs to ensure that prison cell space is 
        available for the confinement 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 operation of correctional 
        facilities and programs and which includes diversional 
        programs, particularly drug diversion programs, community 
        corrections programs, a prisoner screening and security 
        classification system, prisoner rehabilitation and treatment 
        programs, prisoner work activities and job skills programs, a 
        pre-release prisoner assessment to provide risk reduction 
        management, post-release assistance, 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 facilities and programs.
    (c) Matching Requirement.--The Federal share of a grant received 
under this Act may not exceed 75 percent 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 regulations 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 assistance 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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