legislation: 106-s-2927

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106-s-2927 106 s 2927 Public Safety Act Crime and Law Enforcement 2000-07-26 2000-07-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7667-7668) Senate Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] WI D F000061 0 Public Safety Act - Requires an applicant under the violent offender incarceration and truth-in-sentencing incentive grant program to provide assurances to the Attorney General that if selected to receive funds, such applicant shall not contract with a private contractor or vendor to provide core correctional services related to the transportation or the incarceration of an inmate.Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution (except for nonprofit 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 Federal, State, or local government employees; and (2) the transportation, housing, safeguarding, protection, 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 such employees. 2025-08-20T14:19:21Z  

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