H.R. 979 (106th): Public Safety Act

Introduced:
Mar 04, 1999 (106th Congress, 1999–2000)
Sponsor:
Rep. Ted Strickland [D-OH6]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
See Instead:
This bill was re-introduced as H.R. 1764 (107th) on May 08, 2001.

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Status

This bill was introduced on March 4, 1999, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Mar 04, 1999
Cosponsors
145 cosponsors (121D, 22R, 1D, 1I) (show)
Committees

House Judiciary

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Full Title

To ensure that services related to the operation of a correctional facility and the incarceration of inmates are not provided by private contractors or vendors and that persons convicted of any offenses against the United States shall be housed in facilities managed and maintained by Federal employees.

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Last updated Mar 04, 1999.
5 pages

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3/4/1999--Introduced.
Public Safety Act - Provides that the recipient of a grant under the violent offender incarceration and truth-in-sentencing incentive grant program may not contract with a private contractor or vendor to provide services related to the operation of a correctional facility or the incarceration of inmates.
Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution (except for community correctional confinement such as halfway houses) confining any person convicted of offenses against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by U.S. employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, care, subsistence, protection, instructing, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by U.S. employees.

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