---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60511"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60511"
heading: "Careers training demonstration grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60511"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 605 — Recidivism Prevention"
  - "Subchapter I — New and Innovative Programs to Improve Offender Reentry Services"
---

# §60511. Careers training demonstration grants

- (a) **Authority to make grants—** From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to States, units of local government, territories, nonprofit organizations, and [Indian Tribes](/usc/34/60502.md?p=2) to provide career training, including subsidized employment, when part of a training [program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2), to prisoners and reentering youth and adults.
- (b) **Use of funds—** Grants awarded under [subsection (a)](#a) may be used for establishing a [program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) to train prisoners for jobs and careers during the 3-year period before release from prison, jail, or a juvenile facility, as well as upon transition and reentry into the community.
- (c) **Priority consideration—** Priority consideration shall be given to any application under this section that—
  - (1) provides assessment of local demand for employees in the geographic areas to which [offenders](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3) are likely to return;
  - (2) conducts individualized reentry career planning upon the start of incarceration or post-release employment planning for each [offender](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3) served under the grant;
  - (3) demonstrates connections to employers within the local community; or
  - (4) tracks and monitors employment outcomes.
- (d) **Control of Internet access—** An entity that receives a grant under [subsection (a)](#a) shall restrict access to the Internet by prisoners, as appropriate, to ensure public safety.
- (e) **Reports—** Not later than the last day of each fiscal year, an entity that receives a grant under [subsection (a)](#a) during the preceding fiscal year shall submit to the Attorney General a report that describes and assesses the uses of such grant during the preceding fiscal year.
- (f) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–199, title I, § 115, Apr. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 677; Pub. L. 115–391, title V, § 502(d), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5229.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 17511 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(1), substituted “Careers” for “Technology careers” in section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(2), substituted “nonprofit organizations, and Indian Tribes to provide career training, including subsidized employment, when part of a training program, to prisoners and reentering youth and adults” for “and Indian Tribes to provide technology career training to prisoners”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(3), struck out “technology careers training” before “program” and “technology-based” before “jobs” and inserted “, as well as upon transition and reentry into the community” after “facility”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(6), added subsec. (c). Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d).

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(5), redesignated subsec. (c) as (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (e).

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(4), (5), redesignated subsec. (d) as (e) and struck out former subsec. (e). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (e) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 and 2010.”

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(d)(7), added subsec. (f).