Prison Reform Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Prison Reform Act - Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants to State planning agencies whose application: (1) sets forth a comprehensive statewide program for the construction, acquisition, or renovation of correctional institutions and facilities in the State and the improvement of correctional programs and practices throughout the State; (2) provides satisfactory assurances that the control of the funds and title to property derived therefrom shall be in a public agency for the uses and purposes provided in this part and that a public agency will administer those funds and that property; (3) provides satisfactory assurances that the availability of funds under this Act shall not reduce the amount of funds under this Act; (4) provides satisfactory emphasis on the development and operation of community-based correctional facilities and programs; (5) provides for advanced techniques in the design of institutions and facilities; (6) provides, where feasible and desirable, for the sharing of correctional institutions and facilities on a regional basis; (7) provides satisfactory assurances that the personnel standards and programs of the institutions and…