34 U.S.C. § 12124 — Correctional job training and placement
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-322 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 599 words · no verdicts yet
This law creates a Justice Department office to help incarcerated people and ex-offenders get job training and jobs. The office coordinates federal programs, helps state and local agencies, trains their staff, and reports to Congress each year. It also collects and shares information on how well these programs work.
(a) Purpose. This section aims to support job training and placement programs that serve incarcerated people and ex-offenders.
(b) Definitions. (1) A "correctional institution" is a prison, jail, reformatory, work farm, detention center, halfway house, or similar place for confining or rehabilitating offenders. (2) A "correctional job training or placement program" is an activity that provides, or helps people get, job training or placement services for incarcerated people or ex-offenders. (3) An "ex-offender" is someone sentenced to probation by a federal or state court, or released from a federal, state, or local correctional institution. (4) An "incarcerated person" is anyone held in a federal or state correctional institution who is charged with or convicted of a crime.
(c) Establishment of office. (1) The Attorney General had to create an Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement inside the Justice Department, headed by an Attorney-General-appointed Director. (2) This had to happen within 6 months after September 13, 1994.
(d) Functions of office. The Attorney General, through the Office's Director and in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, must (1) help coordinate the Labor Department's Federal Bonding Program, its targeted-jobs-credit certifications for ex-offenders, and other Justice or Labor correctional job programs; (2) give technical help to state and local job-training agencies funded under this Act or other Justice or Labor programs, for employability-related work; (3) create and use special staff-training materials and methods so state and local agency staff can help incarcerated people and ex-offenders gain marketable skills and find jobs; (4) prepare and send Congress a yearly report on the Office's activities and the state of correctional job programs nationwide; (5) cooperate with other federal agencies running such programs to keep them coordinated nationwide; (6) consult with and reach out to state job-training councils and private industry councils about programs under this Act, and to other state and local officials about other Justice or Labor employment programs; (7) collect from states information on training outcomes and job results for a sample of incarcerated people and ex-offenders served by Justice- or Labor-funded programs; and (8) collect from states and local governments information on how correctional job programs are being developed and run, and share that information as appropriate.
It is the purpose of this section to encourage and support job training programs, and job placement programs, that provide services to incarcerated persons or ex-offenders.
As used in this section:
The term “correctional institution” means any prison, jail, reformatory, work farm, detention center, or halfway house, or any other similar institution designed for the confinement or rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
The term “correctional job training or placement program” means an activity that provides job training or job placement services to incarcerated persons or ex-offenders, or that assists incarcerated persons or ex-offenders in obtaining such services.
The term “ex-offender” means any individual who has been sentenced to a term of probation by a Federal or State court, or who has been released from a Federal, State, or local correctional institution.
The term “incarcerated person” means any individual incarcerated in a Federal or State correctional institution who is charged with or convicted of any criminal offense.
The Attorney General shall establish within the Department of Justice an Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement. The Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the Attorney General.
The Attorney General shall carry out this subsection not later than 6 months after September 13, 1994.
The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall—
assist in coordinating the activities of the Federal Bonding Program of the Department of Labor, the activities of the Department of Labor related to the certification of eligibility for targeted jobs credits under section 51 of title 26 with respect to ex-offenders, and any other correctional job training or placement program of the Department of Justice or Department of Labor;
provide technical assistance to State and local employment and training agencies that—
receive financial assistance under this Act; or
receive financial assistance through other programs carried out by the Department of Justice or Department of Labor, for activities related to the development of employability;
prepare and implement the use of special staff training materials, and methods, for developing the staff competencies needed by State and local agencies to assist incarcerated persons and ex-offenders in gaining marketable occupational skills and job placement;
prepare and submit to Congress an annual report on the activities of the Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement, and the status of correctional job training or placement programs in the United States;
cooperate with other Federal agencies carrying out correctional job training or placement programs to ensure coordination of such programs throughout the United States;
consult with, and provide outreach to—
State job training coordinating councils, administrative entities, and private industry councils, with respect to programs carried out under this Act; and
other State and local officials, with respect to other employment or training programs carried out by the Department of Justice or Department of Labor;
collect from States information on the training accomplishments and employment outcomes of a sample of incarcerated persons and ex-offenders who were served by employment or training programs carried out, or that receive financial assistance through programs carried out, by the Department of Justice or Department of Labor; and
collect from States and local governments information on the development and implementation of correctional job training or placement programs; and
disseminate such information, as appropriate.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20418, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1835.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 1835
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