Protecting Youth from Solitary Confinement Act

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4124 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4124

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure that juveniles 
   adjudicated in Federal delinquency proceedings are not subject to 
      solitary confinement while committed to juvenile facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2014

Mr. Cardenas (for himself, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Danny 
K. Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Grijalva) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure that juveniles 
   adjudicated in Federal delinquency proceedings are not subject to 
      solitary confinement while committed to juvenile facilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Youth from Solitary 
Confinement Act''.

SEC. 2. JUVENILES ADJUDICATED IN FEDERAL DELINQUENCY PROCEEDINGS NOT 
              SUBJECT TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WHILE COMMITTED TO 
              JUVENILE FACILITIES.

    Section 5039 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by adding ``No juvenile in Federal custody held in 
        juvenile facilities may be subject to solitary confinement.'' 
        at the end of the second undesignated paragraph; and
            (2) by inserting after the second undesignated paragraph 
        the following:
    ``Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Director of the Board of Prisons shall submit to the President and 
Congress a report with respect to the preceding fiscal year. The report 
shall contain a detailed summary and analysis of the most recent data 
regarding the rate at which juveniles are subject to solitary 
confinement and the trends demonstrated by the data described in the 
next sentence. The data referred to in the preceding sentence are, for 
each juvenile who was subject to solitary confinement during the period 
to which the report pertains, the types of offenses for which the 
juvenile is incarcerated, the race, gender, and age of the juvenile, 
how many hours the juvenile was subject to solitary confinement; and 
the purpose for the solitary confinement.''.
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