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Sec. 2 · H.R. 3612

Elimination of contracting for Federal correctional facilities and community confinement facilities

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(a) In general Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 4015. No contracting out of Federal prison facilities or community confinement facilities (a) Federal correctional facilities generally Beginning on the date that is 6 years after the date of the enactment of the End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2025 — (1) all core correctional services at each correctional facility which is used by the Bureau of Prisons for the confinement of persons serving sentences of imprisonment for Federal offenses shall be performed by employees of the Federal Government; and (2) all core correctional services at each correctional facility which is used by the United States Marshals Service for the confinement of persons in the custody of the United States Marshals Service shall be performed by employees of the Federal Government, except that the United States Marshals Service may enter and maintain a contract with a facility operated by a State or unit of local government if— (A) the core correctional services at such correctional facility are performed by employees of such State or unit of local government; and (B) the facility meets all constitutional, Federal statutory, United States Marshals Service, and any applicable State or local standards. (b) Federal community confinement facilities Beginning on the date that is 8 years after the date of the enactment of the End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2025, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons may not enter into or maintain any contract with any for-profit entity to provide or manage any community confinement facility. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) The term community confinement facility has the meaning given that term in section 115.5 of title 28, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2025). (2) The term core correctional services means the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of individuals charged with or convicted of an offense.. (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 4015. No contracting out of Federal prison facilities or community confinement facilities..