Hal Rogers: “Dear Gentlemen: We are writing to ask you to restore funding for FY 2000 for the Violent Offender Incarceration/…”

“Dear Gentlemen: We are writing to ask you to restore funding for FY 2000 for the Violent Offender Incarceration/ Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) Prison Construction Grant Program at the FY 1999 level without offsets, set-asides or earmarks. Relying on the incentives in VOI/TIS, most of our states have adopted longer sentences for violent crimes and instituted other changes to ensure that the actual time served by violent offenders is consistent with their sentences. We all have projects in various stages of planning and implementation, which depend upon VOI/TIS being funded through FY 2000. These funds are vital to states' efforts to get violent offenders off our nation's streets and to keep them off longer.”