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HR 663 104th Congress House

No Frills Prison Act

Official title: To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to prevent luxurious conditions in prisons.

Introduced: February 24, 1995 See on congress.gov
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Mar 15, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Jan 24, 1995
Introduced in House
Jan 24, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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 Latest action March 15, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

No Frills Prison Act - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to require a State, to be eligible for truth in sentencing incentive grants, to demonstrate that it: (1) provides living conditions and opportunities within its prisons that are not more luxurious than those that the average prisoner would have experienced if not incarcerated; (2) does not provide to any such prisoner specified benefits or privileges, including earned good time credits, less than 40 hours a week of work that either offsets or reduces the expenses of keeping the prisoner or provides resources toward restitution of victims, unmonitored phone calls (with exceptions), in-cell television viewing, possession of pornographic materials, instruction or training equipment for any martial art or bodybuilding or weightlifting equipment, or dress or hygiene other than as is uniform or standard in the prison; and (3) in the case of a prisoner serving a sentence for a crime of violence which resulted in serious bodily injury to another, does not provide housing other than in separate cell blocks intended for violent prisoners, less than nine hours a day of physical labor (with exceptions), any release from the prison for any purpose unless under physical or mechanical restraint and under constant supervision of at least one armed correctional officer, or any viewing of television.

Directs the Attorney General to establish conditions in the Federal prison system that are, as nearly as possible, the same as those required in State prisons under this Act.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 663: No Frills Prison Act. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-663/
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