S 1174 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act of 2001

Introduced Jul 12, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Patrick J. Leahy D-VT

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 12, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJul 12, 2001
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs to make grants for programs designed to: (1) alter existing correctional facilities, or develop separate facilities, to provide separate facilities for juveniles; (2) provide correctional staff responsible for supervising juveniles with orientation and ongoing training; (3) provide ombudsmen; (4) provide access to educational programs, vocational training, mental and physical health assessment and treatment, and drug treatment for juveniles; or (5) seek alternatives to housing juveniles with adult inmates.

Authorizes the use of truth-in-sentencing and violent offender incarceration grants for purposes (1) through (3) above.

Requires: (1) the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to report regarding the sentencing of juvenile offenders as adult criminal offenders; (2) the Assistant Attorney General to provide grants to provide custodial facilities appropriate for violent juvenile offenders in certain rural States and economically distressed communities; and (3) the General Accounting Office to study and report on the prevalence and effects of the use of electroshock, specified restraints, and solitary confinement against juvenile offenders.

Directs that whenever a juvenile is taken into custody for an alleged act of juvenile delinquency, the arresting officer (current law) or another representative of the Attorney General immediately advise such juvenile of his legal rights, in language reasonably calculated to be comprehensible (currently, in language comprehensive) to a juvenile.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 12, 2001 to Apr 17, 2002, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-MAEdward M. KennedyOriginalJul 12, 2001
R-UTOrrin G. HatchOriginalJul 12, 2001
D-SDThomas A. DaschleNov 27, 2001
D-LAMary L. LandrieuApr 17, 2002

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 12, 2001Introduced in Senate
  2. Jul 12, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  3. Jul 12, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7592-7594)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

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