34 U.S.C. § 12121 — Task force on prison construction standardization and techniques
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-322 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 233 words · no verdicts yet
This law creates a task force of officials and private experts to find cheaper, more efficient ways to build prisons. The task force studies new construction methods and materials, then shares what it learns with state and local officials. It also evaluates and certifies how well the cost-saving methods actually work.
(a) Task force. If money is available, the Director of the National Institute of Corrections must set up a task force. It includes federal, state, and local officials expert in prison construction, plus an equal number of private-sector engineers, architects, and construction experts skilled in cost-cutting construction standardization, materials, and technologies.
(b) Cooperation. The task force must work closely with other state and local officials in charge of prison construction where they are.
(c) Performance requirements. The task force must work to (1) create and recommend standardized construction plans and methods for prisons and prison components, and (2) evaluate and recommend new construction technologies, techniques, and materials to cut prison construction costs at every government level and make building more efficient.
(d) Dissemination. The task force must share the information described in (c) with state and local prison-construction officials, through written reports and meetings.
(e) Promotion and evaluation. The task force must (1) work to get these cost-saving efforts actually used at the federal, state, and local levels; (2) evaluate how well those adopted cost-saving efforts worked, and share the results widely; and (3) where feasible, certify how effective the cost-saving efforts were.
The Director of the National Institute of Corrections shall, subject to availability of appropriations, establish a task force composed of Federal, State, and local officials expert in prison construction, and of at least an equal number of engineers, architects, and construction experts from the private sector with expertise in prison design and construction, including the use of cost-cutting construction standardization techniques and cost-cutting new building materials and technologies.
The task force shall work in close cooperation and communication with other State and local officials responsible for prison construction in their localities.
The task force shall work to—
establish and recommend standardized construction plans and techniques for prison and prison component construction; and
evaluate and recommend new construction technologies, techniques, and materials,
to reduce prison construction costs at the Federal, State, and local levels and make such construction more efficient.
The task force shall disseminate information described in subsection (c) to State and local officials involved in prison construction, through written reports and meetings.
The task force shall—
work to promote the implementation of cost-saving efforts at the Federal, State, and local levels;
evaluate and advise on the results and effectiveness of such cost-saving efforts as adopted, broadly disseminating information on the results; and
to the extent feasible, certify the effectiveness of the cost-savings efforts.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20406, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1826.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 1826
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