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Breaking Federal Prison News: President Bush Signed Into Law 'The Second Chance Act of 2007' on April 9, 2008, Allowing the Federal Bureau of Prison

(PRWEB) April 10, 2008 -- Federal Prison Consultants, LLC summarizes below "The Second Chance Act of 2007" into potential release benefits for federal prison and some state prison inmates and is available as advocates for federal and state prisoners, their families and criminal defense attorneys. With over 200 years of combined experience on staff, Federal Prison Consultants can assist with eligibility and advocate for the maximum release benefits available.

The Second Chance Act primarily authorizes federal funding for state and federal reentry programs. It also directs -- but does not require -- the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to consider giving federal prisoners longer stays in halfway houses, and authorizes funds for a very limited test program for elderly prisoners. The "second chance" the bill refers to applies almost exclusively to people leaving prison -- it does not give shorter sentences to people already in prison.

With few exceptions, the bill is designed to provide programs that help people leaving prison reenter their communities, so that they do not reoffend.

Only three parts of the bill may be able to affect how long a person stays in prison. These three parts only affect people in federal prison:

1. The first lengthens the outer limits of the time an individual is guaranteed consideration for prerelease community corrections (halfway house) from six months to 12 months. However, there is no new requirement that the BOP give every person the full 12 months in a halfway house at the end of their sentence.

2. The second creates a limited pilot program called the Elderly and Family Reunification for Certain Nonviolent Offenders provision. This provision will likely only take place in one facility and is unlikely to provide relief for many individuals.

3. Finally, the bill increases slightly the percentage of a federal sentence that can be served in home confinement. There is no requirement that the BOP give prisoners any time in home confinement.

The Second Chance Act authorizes funding for:

1. Existing demonstration and long-term adult and juvenile offender state and local reentry programs (does not apply to federal prisons), including:

? Existing adult and juvenile offender state and local reentry demonstration projects (includes educational, literacy, vocational and job placement services; a full continuum of substance abuse treatment services; and provision of comprehensive services upon reentry including mental and physical health care).

? New grants to states, tribal and local reentry courts for demonstration programs that would monitor juvenile and adult offenders reentering the community and provide them with coordinated and comprehensive reentry services and programs, including: coordinated and comprehensive reentry services and programs including drug and alcohol testing and health services and assessment; community impact panels and victim impact classes; and community services to juvenile and adult offenders, including housing assistance, education, job training and conflict intervention skills.

? Development, implementation or expansion of state, tribal or local demonstration drug treatment programs that are alternatives to imprisonment.

? Development, implementation or expansion of comprehensive and clinically appropriate family based demonstration substance abuse treatment programs as alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent parent drug offenders or prison-based family treatment programs for incarcerated parents of minor children.

? Improvements in education at state, tribal, and local prisons, jails and juvenile facilities.

? Technology career training demonstration programs.

2. Enhanced drug treatment and mentoring programs, including

? Continued and improved drug treatment programs at state, tribal and local prisons, jails or juvenile facilities. (Does not apply to federal prisons.)

? Nonprofit and tribal initiatives to provide mentoring and other transitional services. (Does not apply to federal prisons.)

? Nonprofit initiatives to provide mentoring, job training, and job placement services to eligible offenders (over the age of 18 and never convicted of a violent or a sex-related offense). (Applies to both federal and state prisons.)

3. Improved federal offender reentry (applies to federal prisons only), including:

? Demonstration programs that establish a federal prisoner reentry strategy.

? Assistance to prisoners with obtaining identification prior to release.

? A pilot program called "Elderly and Family Reunification for Certain Nonviolent Offenders." This program will probably take place at a single facility designated by the Attorney General and will allow eligible elderly offenders who have served ten years or more of a long sentence to serve out the remainder of their terms in home detention.

? A demonstration program to supervise high risk individuals in community corrections facilities and home confinement.

4. Reentry research

? Funding for research on juvenile and adult offender reentry, post-incarceration supervision violations and revocations, the needs of incarcerated parents, and the effectiveness of depot naltrexone for heroin addiction.

5. Community corrections (applies to federal prisons only)

? The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) shall ensure that a prisoner serving a term of imprisonments spends a portion of the final months of that term (not to exceed 12 months) in a community correctional facility or appropriate conditions that will afford the prisoner a reasonable opportunity to adjust and prepare for the reentry of that prisoner to the community. The BOP may place a prisoner in home confinement for the shorter of 10 percent of the term of imprisonment or six months.

For more information or to get help with these new programs, please contact Ed Bales, Managing Director of Federal Prison Consultants, LLC at Toll-Free 1-888-5-PRISON. Federal Prison Consultants, LLC is a full-service Federal & State Advocacy Firm with over 200 years of combined experience on staff.

http://www.FederalPrisonConsultants.com

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