To establish a new Justice Department grant program to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in local jails, reduce the number of days individuals are incarcerated in local jails, and support community-led local justice reinvestment.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill authorizes the Attorney General to make grants through the Bureau of Justice Assistance to partnerships of local governments, territories, tribes, and nonprofits for analysis/planning and implementation activities, requires grantees to consult with law enforcement, courts, public defense, community members, and service providers; reduce incarceration rates 5% year 1, 10% each subsequent year, 50% total; reduce equity disparities, and sets grant amounts: planning grants up to 100K for 1 year; implementation grants 500K-3M for 6 years with declining annual amounts (10% cut year 2, 15% year 3, 20% year 4, 25% year 5), sixth year for evaluation only. It relies on grants, compliance mandates, reporting requirements, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Criminal Justice and Science & Space.
Who Benefits and How
Pretrial detainees could face fewer barriers, Local government partnerships could gain revenue opportunities, and Local criminal justice reform partnerships could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Local jails could lose revenue opportunities and Cash bail industry could lose revenue opportunities.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants through the Bureau of Justice Assistance to partnerships of local governments, territories, tribes, and nonprofits for analysis/planning and implementation activities...
- Requires grantees to consult with law enforcement, courts, public defense, community members, and service providers; reduce incarceration rates 5% year 1, 10% each subsequent year, 50% total; reduce equity disparities...
- Sets grant amounts: planning grants up to 100K for 1 year; implementation grants 500K-3M for 6 years with declining annual amounts (10% cut year 2, 15% year 3, 20% year 4, 25% year 5), sixth year for evaluation only.
- Requires selection priority criteria: highest incarceration rates not already in decline, most ambitious plans, jurisdictions preventing jail expansion, and geographic distribution requirements ensuring small metro...
- Defines conditional release, diversion, evidence-based practice, promising practice, emerging practice, equity disparities, and geographic area classifications for the grant program.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill authorizes the Attorney General to make grants through the Bureau of Justice Assistance to partnerships of local governments, territories, tribes, and nonprofits for analysis/planning and implementation activities, requires grantees to consult with law enforcement, courts, public defense, community members, and service providers; reduce incarceration rates 5% year 1, 10% each subsequent year, 50% total; reduce equity disparities, and sets grant amounts: planning grants up to 100K for 1 year; implementation grants 500K-3M for 6 years with declining annual amounts (10% cut year 2, 15% year 3, 20% year 4, 25% year 5), sixth year for evaluation only.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Science & Space
Primary Purpose
The bill authorizes the Attorney General to make grants through the Bureau of Justice Assistance to partnerships of local governments, territories, tribes, and nonprofits for analysis/planning and implementation activities, requires grantees to consult with law enforcement, courts, public defense, community members, and service providers; reduce incarceration rates 5% year 1, 10% each subsequent year, 50% total; reduce equity disparities, and sets grant amounts: planning grants up to 100K for 1 year; implementation grants 500K-3M for 6 years with declining annual amounts (10% cut year 2, 15% year 3, 20% year 4, 25% year 5), sixth year for evaluation only.
Policy Domains
Community First Pretrial Reform Act
Identified Gains
- Pretrial detainees
- Local government partnerships
- Local criminal justice reform partnerships
- Racial and ethnic minorities in the justice system
- High-incarceration jurisdictions
Identified Costs
- Local jails
- Cash bail industry
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Bell (for himself, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Clarke of New …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Grant recipient jurisdictions, Grant recipient partnerships
Criminal justice system actors, High-incarceration jurisdictions, Local criminal justice reform partnerships
Racial and ethnic minorities in the justice system
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "attorney_general"
- → Attorney General, acting through the Bureau of Justice Assistance
- "eligible_partnership"
- → Partnership between 2+ of: local government, territory, Indian tribe, or nonprofit
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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