grants for correctional institutions and facilities

grants for correctional institutions and facilities Sec. 6. (a) Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by inserting immediately after part I) the following: “Part E—Grants for Correctional Institutions and Facilities “Sec. 451. It is the purpose of this part to encourage States and units of general local government to develop and implement programs and projects for the construction, acquisition, and renovation of correctional institutions and facilities, and for the improvement of correctional programs and practices. “Sec. 452. A State desiring to receive a grant under this part for any fiscal year shall, consistent with the basic criteria which the Administration establishes under section 454 of this title, incorporate its application for such grant in the comprehensive State plan submitted to the Administration for that fiscal year in accordance with section 302 of this title. 84 Stat. 1886 “Sec. 453. The Administration is authorized to make a grant under this part to a State planning agency if the application incorporated in the comprehensive State plan— “(1) sets forth a comprehensive statewide program for the construction, acquisition, or renovation of correctional institutions and facilities in the State and the improvement of correctional programs and practices throughout the State; “(2) provides satisfactory assurances that the control of the funds and title to property derived therefrom shall be in a public agency for the uses and purposes provided in this part and that a public agency will administer those funds and that property; “(3) provides satisfactory assurances that the availability of funds under this part shall not reduce the amount of funds under part C of this title which a State would, in the absence of funds under this part, allocate for purposes of this part; “(4) provides satisfactory emphasis on the development and operation of community-based correctional facilities and programs, including diagnostic services, halfway houses, probation, and other supervisory release programs for preadjudication and postadjudication referral of delinquents, youthful offenders, and first offenders, and community-oriented programs for the supervision of parolees; “(5) provides for advanced techniques in the design of institutions and facilities; “(6) provides, where feasible and desirable, for the sharing of correctional institutions and facilities on a regional basis; “(7) provides satisfactory assurances that the personnel standards and programs of the institutions and facilities will reflect advanced practices; “(8) provides satisfactory assurances that the State is engaging in projects and programs to improve the recruiting, organization, training, and education of personnel employed in correctional activities, including those of probation, parole, and rehabilitation; and “(9) complies with the same requirements established for comprehensive State plans under paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (12) of section 303 of this title. “Sec. 454. The Administration shall, after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, by regulation prescribe basic criteria for applicants and grantees under this part. “Sec. 455. (a) The funds appropriated each fiscal year to make grants under this part shall be allocated by the Administration as follows: “(1) Fifty per centum of the funds shall be available for grants to State planning agencies. “(2) The remaining fifty per centum of the funds may be made available, as the Administration may determine, to State planning agencies, units of general local government, or combinations of such units, according to the criteria and on the terms and conditions the Administration determines consistent with this part. Any grant made from funds available under this part may be up to 75 per centum of the cost of the program or project for which such grant is made. No funds awarded under this part may be used for land acquisition. 84 Stat. 1887 “(b) If the Administration determines, on the basis of information available to it during any fiscal year, that a portion of the funds granted to an applicant for that fiscal year will not be required by the applicant or will become available by virtue of the application of the provisions of section 50b of this title, that portion shall be available for reallocation under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this section.” (b) Section 601 of such Act is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(l) The term correctional institution or facility’ means any place for the confinement or rehabilitation of juvenile offenders or individuals charged with or convicted of criminal offenses.” (c) Part E and part F of title I of such Act are redesignated as part F and part G, respectively.