DRUG OFFENSES WITHIN FEDERAL PRISONS.

SEC. 6468. DRUG OFFENSES WITHIN FEDERAL PRISONS. (a) Twenty Year Maximum Penalty.—Section 1791(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as (2) through (5), respectively; (2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph (1): “(1) imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both, if the object is specified in subsection (d)(1)(C) of this section;”; and (3) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, by striking “or (c)(1)(C)”. (b) Consecutive Sentences.—Section 1791 of title 18, United States Code, is further amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): “(c) Any punishment imposed under subsection (b) for a violation of this section by an inmate of a prison shall be consecutive to the sentence being served by such inmate at the time the inmate commits such violation.”. (c) Pursuant to its authority under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, and section 21 of the Sentencing Act of 1987, the United States Sentencing Commission shall promulgate guidelines, or shall amend existing guidelines, to provide that a defendant convicted of violating section 1791(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, and punishable under section 1791(b)(1) of that title as so redesignated, shall be assigned an offense level under chapter 2 of the sentencing guidelines that is— (1) two levels greater than the level that would have been assigned had the offense not been committed in prison; and (2) in no event less than level 26. (d) If the sentencing guidelines are amended after the effective date of this section, the Sentencing Commission shall implement the instruction set forth in subsection (c) so as to achieve a comparable result.