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S. 1060 110th Congress Senate

Second Chance Act of 2007

Official title: A bill to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reent… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 19, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Aug 2, 2007
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Mar 29, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4191-4203)
Mar 29, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4191)
Mar 29, 2007
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action August 2, 2007

Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Recidivism Reduction and Second Chance Act of 2007 or the Second Chance Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize, rewrite, and expand provisions for adult and juvenile offender state and local reentry demonstration projects to provide expanded services to offenders and their families for reentry into society.

Directs the Attorney General to award grants for: (1) state and local reentry courts; (2) Comprehensive and Continuous Offender Reentry Task Forces; (3) pharmacological drug treatment services to incarcerated offenders; (4) technology career training for offenders; and (5) mentoring services for reintegrating offenders into the community.

Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to require the Secretary of Education to establish a program for education and employment counseling for youth offenders.

Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants for: (1) the establishment of a National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Resource Center; (2) drug treatment programs as an alternative to imprisonment; (3) evaluation of methods to improve academic and vocational education for incarcerated offenders; (4) demonstration programs to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs in long-term substance abusers; (5) incentive grants to improve drug treatment to offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities; (6) pharmacological drug treatment services to incarcerated offenders; (7) prison-based family treatment programs for incarcerated parents of minor children; and (8) a study of parole or post-incarceration supervision violations and revocations.

Requires the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to establish: (1) a prisoner reentry program; and (2) a pilot program for the release of elderly nonviolent offenders (age 60 or older).

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1060: Second Chance Act of 2007. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-1060/
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