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Purpose: To require the United States Sentencing Commission to submit to Congress a certain quarterly report relating to recidivism.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES--114th Cong., 1st Sess S. 2123
AMENDMENT At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. 110. REPORT ON RECIDIVISM.
(a) DEFINITION.--In this section, the term ''covered individual'' means an individual--
(1) whose sentence is reduced under this Act, or an amendment made by this Act; and
(2) who, after the date on which the individual is released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, is charged with or convicted of a criminal offense.
SIL 15793 S.L.C.
(b) REPORT.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the United States Sentencing Commission shall, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Comptroller of the United States, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that contains information pertaining to covered individuals, including --
(1) the name, date of birth, and Bureau of Prisons Register Number of the covered individual;
(2) the nature of the offense committed by the by the covered individual, including the name of the offense and corresponding citation to Federal or State law;
(3) the jurisdiction in which the offense was committed;
(4) the status of any Federal or State proceeding arising out of the offense; and
(5) any other information related to the offense or subsequent criminal proceeding related thereto that the United States Sentencing Commission determines is relevant
The same thing happened four years ago in California. While Governor Brown's Realignment Law (AB109) allowed for the early release of roughly 27,000 so called "low level" prison inmates, put most of them on county probation rather than state parole, and restricted sentencing of most property felons to county jail, the law did not provide any way for the state to track new crimes committed by these ex-cons unless they committed a serious or violent crime requiring a return to prison. The takeaway from this is simple...they did not want anybody have good data to assess the impact of this law on public safety. I'm not surprised that the proponents of The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, are equally disinterested in transparency.