34 U.S.C. § 60552 — Grants to study parole or post-incarceration supervision violations and revocations

(a) Grants authorized. Using available funds, the Attorney General may give grants to States. The grants pay for studying and improving how States collect data on people whose parole or post-incarceration supervision has been revoked, and on which of those people pose the greatest risk to victims and community safety. (b) Application. To get a grant, a State must: (1) certify that it has, or intends to build, a program collecting comprehensive and reliable data on those individuals — including (A) the number and type of parole or post-incarceration supervision violations in the State; (B) the reasons supervision was revoked; (C) the underlying behavior that led to the revocation; and (D) the prison term or other penalty imposed for the violation; and (2) give that data to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in whatever form the Bureau prescribes. (c) Analysis. Any statistical analysis of this population data must follow the classification standards set out in the Federal Register Notice dated October 30, 1997.