[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 458 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 458

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that Federal prisons 
may not provide cable television and similar luxuries to their inmates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2001

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that Federal prisons 
may not provide cable television and similar luxuries to their inmates.

    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 ``No Frills Prison Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN LUXURIES IN FEDERAL PRISONS.

    Section 4007 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ``Money from the Treasury of the United 
States shall not be used to purchase cable television services, to rent 
or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other 
audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational 
purposes. The preceding sentence does not preclude the rental or 
purchase of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training or 
educational programs.''.
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