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§12122 Efficiency in law enforcement and corrections

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Comprehensive Acts › Chapter CHAPTER 121— - VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PRISONS › Part Part B— - Miscellaneous Provisions › § 12122

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

For each grant program funded by this Act or its amendments, the Attorney General must promote low‑cost ways to build, convert, expand, and run facilities, cut administrative and overhead costs, and use surplus Federal property, and may study modular or prefabricated designs for housing nonviolent criminals.

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Title 34, §12122

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(a)In the administration of each grant program funded by appropriations authorized by this Act or by an amendment made by this Act, the Attorney General shall encourage—
(1)innovative methods for the low-cost construction of facilities to be constructed, converted, or expanded and the low-cost operation of such facilities and the reduction of administrative costs and overhead expenses; and
(2)the use of surplus Federal property.
(b)The Attorney General may make an assessment of the cost efficiency and utility of using modular, prefabricated, precast, and pre-engineered construction components and designs for housing nonviolent criminals.

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This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 103–322, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1796, known as the Violent Crime Control and Law

Enforcement

Act of 1994. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1994 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13722 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12122

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73