S 2790 · 102th Congress · Families
A bill to establish a boot camp program for juvenile delinquents, provide grants for State and local law enforcement, and authorize additional appropriations for the Head Start Program.
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EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.(1992-05-21)
Plain Language Summary
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Authorizes the Attorney General, through the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to make grants to appropriate State agencies for the purpose of establishing up to ten military-style boot camps for juvenile delinquents. Specifies that such camps shall be located on existing or closed military installations on sites to be chosen by the agencies in one or more States, or in other facilities designated by the agencies on such sites. Directs the Administrator to: (1) try to achieve equitable geographic distribution in approving camp sites; and (2) give priority to grants where more than one State enters into formal cooperative arrangements to jointly administer a camp. Specifies that such camps shall: (1) provide a highly regimented schedule of strict discipline, physical training, work, drill, and ceremony characteristic of military basic training, and remedial and vocational education and treatment for substance abuse (where appropriate); and (2) be designed to accommodate between 200 and 300 juveniles for such time as the agency deems appropriate. Makes a person eligible for assignment to a camp if he or she: (1) is considered to be a juvenile…
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