End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2019
United States116th CongressHR-4970House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 18, 2019
Summary
End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2019 This bill phases out the use of private prisons and private, for-profit community confinement facilities (e.g., halfway houses) to confine individuals serving terms for federal offenses. It also requires the Bureau of Prisons to provide inmates with counseling about resources in their communities as part of prerelease procedures and certain postrelease information about any fines, assessments, or other penalties connected to their convictions.
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Timeline
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
House of Representatives
Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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