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[CITE: 42USC13882]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 136--VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--CRIME PREVENTION
 
               Part I--Family Unity Demonstration Project
 
Sec. 13882. Definitions

    In this part--
        ``child'' means a person who is less than 7 years of age.
        ``community correctional facility'' means a residential facility 
    that--
            (A) is used only for eligible offenders and their children 
        under 7 years of age;
            (B) is not within the confines of a jail or prison;
            (C) houses no more than 50 prisoners in addition to their 
        children; and
            (D) provides to inmates and their children--
                (i) a safe, stable, environment for children;
                (ii) pediatric and adult medical care consistent with 
            medical standards for correctional facilities;
                (iii) programs to improve the stability of the parent-
            child relationship, including educating parents regarding--
                    (I) child development; and
                    (II) household management;

                (iv) alcoholism and drug addiction treatment for 
            prisoners; and
                (v) programs and support services to help inmates--
                    (I) to improve and maintain mental and physical 
                health, including access to counseling;
                    (II) to obtain adequate housing upon release from 
                State incarceration;
                    (III) to obtain suitable education, employment, or 
                training for employment; and
                    (IV) to obtain suitable child care.

        ``eligible offender'' means a primary caretaker parent who--
            (A) has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more 
        than 7 years or is awaiting sentencing for a conviction 
        punishable by such a term of imprisonment; and
            (B) has not engaged in conduct that--
                (i) knowingly resulted in death or serious bodily 
            injury;
                (ii) is a felony for a crime of violence against a 
            person; or
                (iii) constitutes child neglect or mental, physical, or 
            sexual abuse of a child.

        ``primary caretaker parent'' means--
            (A) a parent who has consistently assumed responsibility for 
        the housing, health, and safety of a child prior to 
        incarceration; or
            (B) a woman who has given birth to a child after or while 
        awaiting her sentencing hearing and who expresses a willingness 
        to assume responsibility for the housing, health, and safety of 
        that child,

    a parent who, in the best interest of a child, has arranged for the 
    temporary care of the child in the home of a relative or other 
    responsible adult shall not for that reason be excluded from the 
    category ``primary caretaker''.
        ``State'' means a State, the District of Columbia, the 
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
    American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

(Pub. L. 103-322, title III, Sec. 31903, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 
1893.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 14214 of this title.
