Fairness and Incarceration Responsibility (FAIR) Act

Summary

Fairness and Incarceration Responsibility (FAIR) Act - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to require a State, to be eligible for a violent offender incarceration grant, to have enacted and implemented a State law (victim damages law) providing that a victim (or in the case of a homicide, the family of the victim) of a crime of violence have a Federal cause of action in any U.S. district court against the State for the recovery of actual (but not punitive) damages resulting from the crime of violence, if the individual convicted of committing such crime: (1) had previously been convicted by the State of a crime of violence; (2) was released before serving the full sentence for that offense; and (3) committed the subsequent crime of violence at issue before the original term of imprisonment would have expired. (Sec. 4) Amends such Act to provide a State, to be eligible for a truth-in-sentencing incentive grant, to demonstrate that the State has: (1) implemented truth-in-sentencing laws that require or result in persons convicted of a part 1 violent crime serving 100 percent of the sentence imposed (currently, 85 percent); and (2) enacted and implemented a victim damages law.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 31 October 1997

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 31 October 1997

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 31 October 1997

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