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 112 STAT. 2024 PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 (1) A description of the basis for the selection of prisoners to be transferred, particularly in light of the fact that many of the prisoners transferred are minimum or medium security prisoners, who are considered to have the best chance for rehabilitation, and whether the transfer of those prisoners indicates a change in Department of Defense policy regarding the rehabilitation of military prisoners. (2) A comparison of the historical recidivism rates of prisoners released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, together with a description of any plans of the Army to track the parole and recidivism rates of prisoners transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and whether it has tracked those factors for previous transferees. (3) A description of the projected future flow of prisoners into the new United States Disciplinary Barracks being constructed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and whether the Secretary of the Army plans to automatically send new prisoners to the Federal Bureau of Prisons without serving at the United States Disciplinary Barracks if that Barracks is at capacity and whether the Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Army covers that possibility. (4) A description of the cost of incarcerating a prisoner in the Federal Bureau of Prisons compared to the United States Disciplinary Barracks and the assessment of the Secretary as to the extent to which the transfer of prisoners to the Federal Bureau of Prisons by the Secretary of the Army is made in order to shift a budgetary burden. (c) MONITORING. — During fiscal years 1999 through 2003, the Secretary of the Army shall track the parole and recidivism rates of prisoners transferred from the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. SEC. 554. REVIEW AND REPORT REGARDENG THE DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL GUARD FULL-TIME SUPPORT AMONG THE STATES. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR REVIEW. —The Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall review the process used for allocating and distributing all categories of full-time support personnel among the States for the National Guard of the States. (b) PURPOSE OF REVIEW.—The purpose of the review is to determine whether that allocation and distribution process provides for adequately meeting the full-time support personnel requirements of the National Guard in the case of those States that have fewer than 16 National Guard units categorized in readiness tiers I, II, and III. (c) MATTERS TO BE REVIEWED. — The matters reviewed shall include the following: (1) The factors considered for the process of determining the distribution among the States of full-time support personnel, including the weights assigned to those factors. (2) The extent to which that process results in full-time support personnel levels for the units of the States described in subsection (b) that are at the levels necessary to optimize the preparedness of those units to meet the mission requirements applicable to those units.

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