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Introduction of the District of Columbia Parole and Supervised Release Act

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 1, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Federal, State and Local Relations Criminal Justice

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Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, I rise today to introduce the District of Columbia Parole and Supervised Release Act. This bill would give the District of Columbia the authority to make parole and supervised release determinations for D.C. Code offenders beginning on November 1, 2022.

Currently, the U.S. Parole Commission (Commission) makes these determinations for D.C. Code offenders. This bill would give D.C. the same authority over parole and supervised release determinations for D.C. Code offenders that the Commission has today. The District has asked to have this authority for its own local offenders. D.C. would have the same authority the states possess over their own local offenders on these matters, including the authority to devise an adjudication system as it sees fit.

The National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 transferred the functions of the D.C. Parole Board to the Commission. By transferring the Commission's work on D.C. Code offenders back to the District, the federal government would save money with enactment of this bill.

I ask my colleagues to support this bill.

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