Correctional Manpower and Employment Act

Correctional Manpower and Employment Act - Title I: Grants to Correctional Agencies for the Training and Employment of Offenders and the Improvement or Correctional Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to any correctional agency to establish programs to improve the manpower training and employment opportunities of offenders and to improve the effectiveness of correctional personnel.

Provides that such programs shall include: (1) diversified manpower training and employment programs for offenders in any form of correctional institution and prerelease and other work programs outside the institution; (2) programs to train offenders in finding employment; (3) programs for the provision of halfway houses for work releases; (4) programs for recruitment and training for correctional personnel; and (5) programs to improve the effectiveness and morale of correctional personnel.

Title II: Grants to Public or Private Agencies for the Training and Employment of Offenders and Ex-Offenders - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any public or nonprofit private department, agency, or organization to establish manpower training and employment programs for offenders and ex-offenders, and programs to improve the effectiveness of correctional personnel.

Provides that such programs shall include: (1) training programs to provide training for offenders in areas in which they could find employment upon release; (2) work release programs; (3) recruiting and training programs for professional and paraprofessional personnel; (4) programs to train ex-offenders in finding employment; and (5) programs of independent evaluation of the various programs under this title.

Title III: Federal Programs for the Training and Employment of Offenders and Ex-Offenders and the Improvement of Correctional Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary to conduct model or demonstration programs which make a special contribution to the development of methods, techniques, or programs designed to facilitate the training and employment of offenders and their reintegration into the community and to improve the effectiveness of correctional personnel.

Provides that such programs shall include: (1) probation services or demonstration projects; (2) State employment service demonstration projects; (3) ex-offender placement assistance demonstration projects; (4) employment of offenders in Federal assistance programs; and (5) programs to determine the efficacy of closing down reform schools, and to determine the value of using professional mediators to resolve inmate-correctional officials conflicts.

Title IV: Administration - Provides that any correctional agency or any other public or private agency desiring to receive financial assistance under titles I or II of this Act shall submit an application to the Secretary.

Provides a formula for the allocation of funds under this Act. Provides that priority in funding for programs under this Act shall be given to those programs which are most likely to be effective in meeting their specified goals.

Requires coordination and cooperation with other Federal agencies to avoid program duplication and to assure the combining of resources and maximum coordination and joint planning between programs conducted or assisted under this Act and other programs administered by such agencies.

Title V: Additional Incentive for Employers of Offenders and Ex-Offenders - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, a tax credit with respect to the wages paid employees certified by the Secretary of Labor as being or having been a prisoner and as having successfully completed training under this Act.

Title VI: National Corrections Manpower Center - Establishes a National Corrections Manpower Center under the general supervision of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in order to improve the effectiveness of corrections personnel in correctional institutions.

Title VII: Studies and Reports - Provides that the Secretary shall conduct a continuing evaluation designed to measure the effect of programs under this Act, and shall submit to the President and Congress annually a detailed report setting forth the results of the evaluation.

Provides that the Secretary shall conduct a nationwide study and publish the results thereof on State laws which result in statutory impediments to employment, offenders' ability to find jobs upon release, and the resultant effect on recidivism rates.

Provides that the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission shall report to the President and Congress no later than one year from the date of the enactment of this Act on the extent to which and the manner in which employment opportunities for offenders may be increased in the Federal Service.

Title VIII: Appropriations - Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out the purposes of this Act $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the next three fiscal years.