Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act
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1Short title
This section would give the Act its short title: the Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act .
2Prohibited provision of a phone
This section would change the penalties in section 1791(b) of title 18, United States Code, which covers providing or possessing prohibited objects in a federal prison. First, it would renumber the existing paragraph (4) as paragraph (5), and the existing paragraph (5) as paragraph (6), to make room for a new paragraph. Second, it would insert a new paragraph (4) setting the penalty for a violation of subsection (a)(1) at imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both, when the object involved is the kind specified in subsection (d)(1)(F) of that section (the object addressed by this section's heading and the bill's stated purpose is a phone in a correctional facility). Third, it would amend the redesignated paragraph (5) (the provision that was paragraph (4) before renumbering) by adding the words "in the case of a violation of subsection (a)(2)" immediately before that paragraph's reference to subsection (d)(1)(F), so that this paragraph's penalty for a subsection (d)(1)(F) object now applies specifically to a violation of subsection (a)(2).
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2. Prohibited provision of a phone Section 1791(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) in the case of a violation of subsection (a)(1), imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both, if the object is specified in subsection (d)(1)(F) of this section; ; and (3) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, by inserting , in the case of a violation of subsection (a)(2), before (d)(1)(F) .
3Review of policies
This section would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, not later than 1 year after this Act becomes law, to conduct a review of Bureau of Prisons policies concerning inmates who make, possess, obtain, or attempt to make or obtain a prohibited object, as defined in section 1791(d)(1) of title 18, United States Code. Based on that review, the Director would also have to update those policies as needed to improve protections for incarcerated individuals and staff.
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3. Review of policies Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall— (1) conduct a review of the policies of the Bureau of Prisons pertaining to inmates who make, possess, obtain, or attempt to make or obtain a prohibited object, as defined in section 1791(d)(1) of title 18, United States Code; and (2) update those policies as needed to improve protections for incarcerated individuals and staff.
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In the Senate.