PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Director of the National Institute of Corrections must set up a task force if funds are available. The group will include federal, state, and local prison construction officials plus at least an equal number of private engineers, architects, and builders with prison design and cost-saving skills. The task force must work with state and local officials, create and recommend standard plans, new materials, and building methods to lower prison construction costs and boost efficiency, share its findings in reports and meetings, promote use of the cost-saving ideas, evaluate results, and, when possible, certify which efforts actually save money.

Title 34, §12121

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(a)Task force

The Director of the National Institute of Corrections shall, subject to availability of appropriations, establish a task force composed of Federal, State, and local officials expert in prison construction, and of at least an equal number of engineers, architects, and construction experts from the private sector with expertise in prison design and construction, including the use of cost-cutting construction standardization techniques and cost-cutting new building materials and technologies.

(b)Cooperation

The task force shall work in close cooperation and communication with other State and local officials responsible for prison construction in their localities.

(c)Performance requirements

The task force shall work to—

(1)establish and recommend standardized construction plans and techniques for prison and prison component construction; and

(2)evaluate and recommend new construction technologies, techniques, and materials,

to reduce prison construction costs at the Federal, State, and local levels and make such construction more efficient.

(d)Dissemination

The task force shall disseminate information described in subsection (c) to State and local officials involved in prison construction, through written reports and meetings.

(e)Promotion and evaluation

The task force shall—

(1)work to promote the implementation of cost-saving efforts at the Federal, State, and local levels;

(2)evaluate and advise on the results and effectiveness of such cost-saving efforts as adopted, broadly disseminating information on the results; and

(3)to the extent feasible, certify the effectiveness of the cost-savings efforts.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13721 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§12121 Task Force on Prison Construction Standardization and Techniques

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Title 34, §12121

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