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Emergency Community Supervision Act

Introduced: March 25, 2020 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 25, 2020
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Emergency Community Supervision Act

This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.

Specifically, it does the following:

  • requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
  • limits the use of pretrial detention; and
  • modifies supervised release, including to limit the use of incarceration as a sanction for a parole violation.
What's happening now March 25, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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