A bill to provide for safe incarceration of juvenile offenders.
Authorizes the use of truth-in-sentencing and violent offender incarceration grants for purposes (1) through (3) above.
Requires: (1) the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to report regarding the sentencing of juvenile offenders as adult criminal offenders; (2) the Assistant Attorney General to provide grants to provide custodial facilities appropriate for violent juvenile offenders in certain rural States and economically distressed communities; and (3) the General Accounting Office to study and report on the prevalence and effects of the use of electroshock, specified restraints, and solitary confinement against juvenile offenders.
Directs that whenever a juvenile is taken into custody for an alleged act of juvenile delinquency, the arresting officer (current law) or another representative of the Attorney General immediately advise such juvenile of his legal rights, in language reasonably calculated to be comprehensible (currently, in language comprehensive) to a juvenile.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7592-7594)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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