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

  1. Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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