A bill to require the release of certain individuals in the custody of the United States because of their risk of exposure during a national emergency, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · March 25, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
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