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106th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5563
To authorize funding for programs that reduce recidivism and promote
successful offender reintegration into the community.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 26, 2000
Mr. Hyde introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on
Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To authorize funding for programs that reduce recidivism and promote
successful offender reintegration into the community.
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 ``Offender Reentry and Community
Safety Act of 2000''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are to--
(1) establish demonstration projects in several Federal
judicial districts, the District of Columbia, and in the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, using new strategies and emerging
technologies that alleviate the public safety risk posed by
released prisoners by promoting their successful reintegration
into the community;
(2) establish court-based programs to monitor the return of
offenders into communities, using court sanctions to promote
positive behavior;
(3) establish offender reentry demonstration projects in
the states using government and community partnerships to
coordinate cost efficient strategies that ensure public safety
and enhance the successful reentry into communities of
offenders who have completed their prison sentences;
(4) establish intensive aftercare demonstration projects
that address public safety and ensure the special reentry needs
of juvenile offenders by coordinating the resources of juvenile
correctional agencies, juvenile courts, juvenile parole
agencies, law enforcement agencies, social service providers,
and local Workforce Investment Boards; and
(5) rigorously evaluate these reentry programs to determine
their effectiveness in reducing recidivism and promoting
successful offender reintegration.
TITLE I--FEDERAL REENTRY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
SEC. 101. FEDERAL REENTRY CENTER DEMONSTRATION.
(a) Authority and Establishment of Demonstration Project.--From
funds made available to carry out this Act, the Attorney General, in
consultation with the Director of the Administrative Office of the
United States Courts, shall establish the Federal Reentry Center
Demonstration project. The project shall involve appropriate prisoners
from the Federal prison population and shall utilize community
corrections facilities, home confinement, and a coordinated response by
Federal agencies to assist participating prisoners, under close
monitoring and more seamless supervision, in preparing for and
adjusting to reentry into the community.
(b) Project Elements.--The project authorized by subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) a Reentry Review Team for each prisoner, consisting of
representatives from the Bureau of Prisons, the United States
Probation System, and the relevant community corrections
facility, who shall initially meet with the prisoner to develop
a reentry plan tailored to the needs of the prisoner and
incorporating victim impact information, and will thereafter
meet regularly to monitor the prisoner's progress toward
reentry and coordinate access to appropriate reentry measures
and resources;
(2) regular drug testing, as appropriate;
(3) a system of graduated levels of supervision within the
community corrections facility to promote community safety,
provide incentives for prisoners to complete the reentry plan,
including victim restitution, and provide a reasonable method
for imposing immediate sanctions for a prisoner's minor or
technical violation of the conditions of participation in the
project;
(4) substance abuse treatment and aftercare, mental and
medical health treatment and aftercare, vocational and
educational training, life skills instruction, conflict
resolution skills training, batterer intervention programs,
assistance obtaining suitable affordable housing, and other
programming to promote effective reintegration into the
community as needed;
(5) to the extent practicable, the recruitment and
utilization of local citizen volunteers, including volunteers
from the faith-based and business communities, to serve as
advisers and mentors to prisoners being released into the
community;
(6) a description of the methodology and outcome measures
that will be used to evaluate the program; and
(7) notification to victims on the status and nature of
offenders' reentry plan.
(c) Probation Officers.--From funds made available to carry out
this Act, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts shall assign one or more probation officers from each
participating judicial district to the Reentry Demonstration project.
Such officers shall be assigned to and stationed at the community
corrections facility and shall serve on the Reentry Review Teams.
(d) Project Duration.--The Reentry Center Demonstration project
shall begin not later than 6 months following the availability of funds
to carry out this section, and shall last 3 years. The Attorney General
may extend the project for a period of up to 6 months to enable
participant prisoners to complete their involvement in the project.
(e) Selection of Districts.--The Attorney General, in consultation
with the Judicial Conference of the United States, shall select an
appropriate number of Federal judicial districts in which to carry out
the Reentry Center Demonstration project.
(f) Coordination of Projects.--The Attorney General, may, if
appropriate, include in the Reentry Center Demonstration project
offenders who participated in the Enhanced In-Prison Vocational
Assessment and Training Demonstration project established by section
105 of this Act.
SEC. 102. FEDERAL HIGH-RISK OFFENDER REENTRY DEMONSTRATION.
(a) Authority and Establishment of Demonstration Project.--From
funds made available to carry out this Act, the Director of the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with
the Attorney General, shall establish the Federal High-Risk Offender
Reentry Demonstration project. The project shall involve Federal
offenders under supervised release who have previously violated the
terms of their release following a term of imprisonment and shall
utilize, as appropriate and indicated, community corrections
facilities, home confinement, appropriate monitoring technologies, and
treatment and programming to promote more effective reentry into the
community.
(b) Project Elements.--The project authorized by subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) participation by Federal prisoners who have previously
violated the terms of their release following a term of
imprisonment;
(2) use of community corrections facilities and home
confinement that, together with the technology referenced in
paragraph (5), will be part of a system of graduated levels of
supervision;
(3) substance abuse treatment and aftercare, mental and
medical health treatment and aftercare, vocational and
educational training, life skills instruction, conflict
resolution skills training, batterer intervention programs, and
other programming to promote effective reintegration into the
community as appropriate;
(4) involvement of a victim advocate and the family of the
prisoner, if it is safe for the victim(s), especially in
domestic violence cases, to be involved;
(5) the use of monitoring technologies, as appropriate and
indicated, to monitor and supervise participating offenders in
the community;
(6) a description of the methodology and outcome measures
that will be used to evaluate the program; and
(7) notification to victims on the status and nature of a
prisoner's reentry plan.
(c) Mandatory Condition of Supervised Release.--In each of the
judicial districts in which the demonstration project is in effect,
appropriate offenders who are found to have violated a previously
imposed term of supervised release and who will be subject to some
additional term of supervised release, shall be designated to
participate in the demonstration project. With respect to these
offenders, the court shall impose additional mandatory conditions of
supervised release that each offender shall, as directed by the
probation officer, reside at a community corrections facility or
participate in a program of home confinement, or both, and submit to
appropriate monitoring, and otherwise participate in the project.
(d) Project Duration.--The Federal High-Risk Offender Reentry
Demonstration shall begin not later than six months following the
availability of funds to carry out this section, and shall last 3
years. The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States
Courts may extend the project for a period of up to six months to
enable participating prisoners to complete their involvement in the
project.
(e) Selection of Districts.--The Judicial Conference of the United
States, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall select an
appropriate number of Federal judicial districts in which to carry out
the Federal High-Risk Offender Reentry Demonstration project.
SEC. 103. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INTENSIVE SUPERVISION, TRACKING, AND
REENTRY TRAINING (DC ISTART) DEMONSTRATION.
(a) Authority and Establishment of Demonstration Project.--From
funds made available to carry out this Act, the Trustee of the Court
Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia,
as authorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self
Government Improvement Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33; 111 Stat. 712)
shall establish the District of Columbia Intensive Supervision,
Tracking and Reentry Training Demonstration (DC ISTART) project. The
project shall involve high risk District of Columbia parolees who would
otherwise be released into the community without a period of
confinement in a community corrections facility and shall utilize
intensive supervision, monitoring, and programming to promote such
parolees' successful reentry into the community.
(b) Project Elements.--The project authorized by subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) participation by appropriate high risk parolees;
(2) use of community corrections facilities and home
confinement;
(3) a Reentry Review Team that includes a victim witness
professional for each parolee which shall meet with the
parolee--by video conference or other means as appropriate--
before the parolee's release from the custody of the Federal
Bureau of Prisons to develop a reentry plan that incorporates
victim impact information and is tailored to the needs of the
parolee and which will thereafter meet regularly to monitor the
parolee's progress toward reentry and coordinate access to
appropriate reentry measures and resources;
(4) regular drug testing, as appropriate;
(5) a system of graduated levels of supervision within the
community corrections facility to promote community safety,
encourage victim restitution, provide incentives for prisoners
to complete the reentry plan, and provide a reasonable method
for immediately sanctioning a prisoner's minor or technical
violation of the conditions of participation in the project;
(6) substance abuse treatment and aftercare, mental and
medical health treatment and aftercare, vocational and
educational training, life skills instruction, conflict
resolution skills training, batterer intervention programs,
assistance obtaining suitable affordable housing, and other
programming to promote effective reintegration into the
community as needed and indicated;
(7) the use of monitoring technologies, as appropriate;
(8) to the extent practicable, the recruitment and
utilization of local citizen volunteers, including volunteers
from the faith-based communities, to serve as advisers and
mentors to prisoners being released into the community; and
(9) notification to victims on the status and nature of a
prisoner's reentry plan.
(c) Mandatory Condition of Parole.--For those offenders eligible to
participate in the demonstration project, the United States Parole
Commission shall impose additional mandatory conditions of parole such
that the offender when on parole shall, as directed by the community
supervision officer, reside at a community corrections facility or
participate in a program of home confinement, or both, submit to
electronic and other remote monitoring, and otherwise participate in
the project.
(d) Program Duration.--The District of Columbia Intensive
Supervision, Tracking and Reentry Training Demonstration shall begin
not later than 6 months following the availability of funds to carry
out this section, and shall last 3 years. The Trustee of the Court
Services and Offender Supervision Agency of the District of Columbia
may extend the project for a period of up to 6 months to enable
participating prisoners to complete their involvement in the project.
SEC. 104. FEDERAL INTENSIVE SUPERVISION, TRACKING, AND REENTRY TRAINING
(FED ISTART) DEMONSTRATION.
(a) Authority and Establishment of Demonstration Project.--From
funds made available to carry out this section, the Director of the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall establish the
Federal Intensive Supervision, Tracking and Reentry Training
Demonstration (FED ISTART) project. The project shall involve
appropriate high risk Federal offenders who are being released into the
community without a period of confinement in a community corrections
facility.
(b) Project Elements.--The project authorized by subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) participation by appropriate high risk Federal
offenders;
(2) significantly smaller caseloads for probation officers
participating in the demonstration project;
(3) substance abuse treatment and aftercare, mental and
medical health treatment and aftercare, vocational and
educational training, life skills instruction, conflict
resolution skills training, batterer intervention programs,
assistance obtaining suitable affordable housing, and other
programming to promote effective reintegration into the
community as needed; and
(4) notification to victims on the status and nature of a
prisoner's reentry plan.
(c) Program Duration.--The Federal Intensive Supervision, Tracking
and Reentry Training Demonstration shall begin not later than 6 months
following the availability of funds to carry out this section, and
shall last 3 years. The Director of the Administrative Office of the
United States Courts may extend the project for a period of up to six
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