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[CITE: 42USC13725]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 136--VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 
                          SUBCHAPTER I--PRISONS
 
                    Part B--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 13725. Correctional job training and placement


(a) Purpose

    It is the purpose of this section to encourage and support job 
training programs, and job placement programs, that provide services to 
incarcerated persons or ex-offenders.

(b) Definitions

    As used in this section:

                    (1) Correctional institution

        The term ``correctional institution'' means any prison, jail, 
    reformatory, work farm, detention center, or halfway house, or any 
    other similar institution designed for the confinement or 
    rehabilitation of criminal offenders.

         (2) Correctional job training or placement program

        The term ``correctional job training or placement program'' 
    means an activity that provides job training or job placement 
    services to incarcerated persons or ex-offenders, or that assists 
    incarcerated persons or ex-offenders in obtaining such services.

                           (3) Ex-offender

        The term ``ex-offender'' means any individual who has been 
    sentenced to a term of probation by a Federal or State court, or who 
    has been released from a Federal, State, or local correctional 
    institution.

                       (4) Incarcerated person

        The term ``incarcerated person'' means any individual 
    incarcerated in a Federal or State correctional institution who is 
    charged with or convicted of any criminal offense.

(c) Establishment of Office

                           (1) In general

        The Attorney General shall establish within the Department of 
    Justice an Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement. The 
    Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the 
    Attorney General.

                             (2) Timing

        The Attorney General shall carry out this subsection not later 
    than 6 months after September 13, 1994.

(d) Functions of Office

    The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office of 
Correctional Job Training and Placement, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Labor, shall--
        (1) assist in coordinating the activities of the Federal Bonding 
    Program of the Department of Labor, the activities of the Department 
    of Labor related to the certification of eligibility for targeted 
    jobs credits under section 51 of title 26 with respect to ex-
    offenders, and any other correctional job training or placement 
    program of the Department of Justice or Department of Labor;
        (2) provide technical assistance to State and local employment 
    and training agencies that--
            (A) receive financial assistance under this Act; or
            (B) receive financial assistance through other programs 
        carried out by the Department of Justice or Department of Labor, 
        for activities related to the development of employability;

        (3) prepare and implement the use of special staff training 
    materials, and methods, for developing the staff competencies needed 
    by State and local agencies to assist incarcerated persons and ex-
    offenders in gaining marketable occupational skills and job 
    placement;
        (4) prepare and submit to Congress an annual report on the 
    activities of the Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement, 
    and the status of correctional job training or placement programs in 
    the United States;
        (5) cooperate with other Federal agencies carrying out 
    correctional job training or placement programs to ensure 
    coordination of such programs throughout the United States;
        (6) consult with, and provide outreach to--
            (A) State job training coordinating councils, administrative 
        entities, and private industry councils, with respect to 
        programs carried out under this Act; and
            (B) other State and local officials, with respect to other 
        employment or training programs carried out by the Department of 
        Justice or Department of Labor;

        (7) collect from States information on the training 
    accomplishments and employment outcomes of a sample of incarcerated 
    persons and ex-offenders who were served by employment or training 
    programs carried out, or that receive financial assistance through 
    programs carried out, by the Department of Justice or Department of 
    Labor; and
        (8)(A) collect from States and local governments information on 
    the development and implementation of correctional job training or 
    placement programs; and
        (B) disseminate such information, as appropriate.

(Pub. L. 103-322, title II, Sec. 20418, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1835.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (d)(2)(A), (6)(A), is Pub. L. 103-
322, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1796, known as the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 13701 of this 
title and Tables.
