[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2514 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2514

  To require the Bureau of Justice Statistics to report on recidivism 
   rates of Federal prisoners who are released early, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 9, 2016

   Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Hatch, and Mr. Perdue) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Bureau of Justice Statistics to report on recidivism 
   rates of Federal prisoners who are released early, 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 ``Criminal Consequences of Early 
Release Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. BIANNUAL REPORT ON RECIDIVISM.

    Section 302(g) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3732(g)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Not later'' and inserting ``(1) Annual 
        report on crimes in indian country.--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Biannual report on recidivism.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 6 months after 
                the date of enactment of this paragraph, and once every 
                6 months thereafter, the Director shall submit to 
                Congress a report on--
                            ``(i) recidivism rates among Federal 
                        prisoners released early under retroactive 
                        revisions to the Sentencing Guidelines that the 
                        United States Sentencing Commission implemented 
                        in 2007, 2010, and 2014;
                            ``(ii) recidivism rates among Federal 
                        prisoners released early under any retroactive 
                        revisions to the Sentencing Guidelines 
                        implemented by the United States Sentencing 
                        Commission after the date of enactment of this 
                        paragraph; and
                            ``(iii) recidivism rates among Federal 
                        prisoners released early under any retroactive 
                        revisions to mandatory minimum sentences 
                        required by law after the date of enactment of 
                        this paragraph.
                    ``(B) Contents of report.--The data required to be 
                reported under subparagraph (A) shall be reported in a 
                manner that shows--
                            ``(i) the total number of Federal prisoners 
                        released early nationally and broken down by 
                        State;
                            ``(ii) the number and types of offenses for 
                        which early released Federal prisoners were 
                        imprisoned;
                            ``(iii) the number of offenses, arrests, 
                        and convictions of early released Federal 
                        prisoners that occur after their early release;
                            ``(iv) the types of offenses leading to 
                        arrests and convictions of Federal prisoners 
                        after early release; and
                            ``(v) the information described in clauses 
                        (iii) and (iv), broken down by State.''.
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