Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act of 2001
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Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs to make grants for programs designed to: (1) alter existing correctional facilities, or develop separate facilities, to provide separate facilities for juveniles; (2) provide correctional staff responsible for supervising juveniles with orientation and ongoing training; (3) provide ombudsmen; (4) provide access to educational programs, vocational training, mental and physical health assessment and treatment, and drug treatment for juveniles; or (5) seek alternatives to housing juveniles with adult inmates. Authorizes the use of truth-in-sentencing and violent offender incarceration grants for purposes (1) through (3) above. Requires: (1) the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to report regarding the sentencing of juvenile offenders as adult criminal offenders; (2) the Assistant Attorney General to provide grants to provide custodial facilities appropriate for violent juvenile offenders in certain rural States and economically distressed communities; and (3) the General Accounting Office to study and report on the prevalence and effects of the use of electroshock, specified restraints, and solitary confinement against juvenile offenders. Directs that whenever a juvenile is taken into custody for an alleged act of juvenile delinquency, the arresting officer (current law) or another representative of the Attorney General immediately advise such juvenile of his legal rights, in language reasonably calculated to be comprehensible (currently, in language comprehensive) to a juvenile.
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