S. 3579 · 116th Congress
Emergency Community Supervision Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Cory Booker
- Introduced
- 2020-03-25
- Latest action
- 2020-03-25 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
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.