42 U.S.C. § 15605 : US Code - Section 15605: Grants to protect inmates and safeguard communities

Search 42 U.S.C. § 15605 : US Code - Section 15605: Grants to protect inmates and safeguard communities

(a) Grants authorized
From amounts made available for grants under this section, the
Attorney General shall make grants to States to assist those States
in ensuring that budgetary circumstances (such as reduced State and
local spending on prisons) do not compromise efforts to protect
inmates (particularly from prison rape) and to safeguard the
communities to which inmates return. The purpose of grants under
this section shall be to provide funds for personnel, training,
technical assistance, data collection, and equipment to prevent and
prosecute prisoner rape.
(b) Use of grant amounts
Amounts received by a grantee under this section may be used by
the grantee, directly or through subgrants, only for one or more of
the following activities:
(1) Protecting inmates
Protecting inmates by -
(A) undertaking efforts to more effectively prevent prison
rape;
(B) investigating incidents of prison rape; or
(C) prosecuting incidents of prison rape.
(2) Safeguarding communities
Safeguarding communities by -
(A) making available, to officials of State and local
governments who are considering reductions to prison budgets,
training and technical assistance in successful methods for
moderating the growth of prison populations without
compromising public safety, including successful methods used
by other jurisdictions;
(B) developing and utilizing analyses of prison populations
and risk assessment instruments that will improve State and
local governments' understanding of risks to the community
regarding release of inmates in the prison population;
(C) preparing maps demonstrating the concentration, on a
community-by-community basis, of inmates who have been
released, to facilitate the efficient and effective -
(i) deployment of law enforcement resources (including
probation and parole resources); and
(ii) delivery of services (such as job training and
substance abuse treatment) to those released inmates;
(D) promoting collaborative efforts, among officials of State
and local governments and leaders of appropriate communities,
to understand and address the effects on a community of the
presence of a disproportionate number of released inmates in
that community; or
(E) developing policies and programs that reduce spending on
prisons by effectively reducing rates of parole and probation
revocation without compromising public safety.
(c) Grant requirements
(1) Period
A grant under this section shall be made for a period of not
more than 2 years.
(2) Maximum
The amount of a grant under this section may not exceed
$1,000,000.
(3) Matching
The Federal share of a grant under this section may not exceed
50 percent of the total costs of the project described in the
application submitted under subsection (d) for the fiscal year
for which the grant was made under this section.
(d) Applications
(1) In general
To request a grant under this section, the chief executive of a
State shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such
time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the
Attorney General may require.
(2) Contents
Each application required by paragraph (1) shall -
(A) include the certification of the chief executive that the
State receiving such grant -
(i) has adopted all national prison rape standards that, as
of the date on which the application was submitted, have been
promulgated under this chapter; and
(ii) will consider adopting all national prison rape
standards that are promulgated under this chapter after such
date;
(B) specify with particularity the preventative,
prosecutorial, or administrative activities to be undertaken by
the State with the amounts received under the grant; and
(C) in the case of an application for a grant for one or more
activities specified in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) -
(i) review the extent of the budgetary circumstances
affecting the State generally and describe how those
circumstances relate to the State's prisons;
(ii) describe the rate of growth of the State's prison
population over the preceding 10 years and explain why the
State may have difficulty sustaining that rate of growth; and
(iii) explain the extent to which officials (including law
enforcement officials) of State and local governments and
victims of crime will be consulted regarding decisions
whether, or how, to moderate the growth of the State's prison
population.
(e) Reports by grantee
(1) In general
The Attorney General shall require each grantee to submit, not
later than 90 days after the end of the period for which the
grant was made under this section, a report on the activities
carried out under the grant. The report shall identify and
describe those activities and shall contain an evaluation of the
effect of those activities on -
(A) the number of incidents of prison rape, and the grantee's
response to such incidents; and
(B) the safety of the prisons, and the safety of the
communities in which released inmates are present.
(2) Dissemination
The Attorney General shall ensure that each report submitted
under paragraph (1) is made available under the national
clearinghouse established under section 15604 of this title.
(f) State defined
In this section, the term "State" includes the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other territory
or possession of the United States.
(g) Authorization of appropriations
(1) In general
There are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this
section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2010.
(2) Limitation
Of amounts made available for grants under this section, not
less than 50 percent shall be available only for activities
specified in paragraph (1) of subsection (b).