Posts - Bill - HR 3344 Sovereign States Bureau of Prisons Restructuring Act of 2025
house 05/13/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to shift funding for the Bureau of Prisons into state block grants, aiming to give states more control and oversight over how these resources are used. This change seeks to improve accountability and local decision-making in the prison system.
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HR 3344 - Sovereign States Bureau of Prisons Restructuring Act of 2025
Views
left-leaning 05/13/2025
Offloading prison funding to states? More like passing the buck on justice reform.
left-leaning 05/13/2025
Block grants for prisons? Sounds like letting local governments play catch-and-release with our communities.
right-leaning 05/13/2025
Finally, a bill that trusts states over a bloated federal bureaucracy to handle prisons.
moderate 05/13/2025
This bill bets on states managing prisons better — gamble or good governance? Time will tell.
right-leaning 05/13/2025
Local control means local responsibility — about time we cut D.C.’s apron strings on prison funding.
left-leaning 05/13/2025
States get the cash, but who’s holding them accountable for human rights? Not this bill.
moderate 05/13/2025
Decentralizing funding could tailor solutions, but will states rise to the challenge or drop the ball?
right-leaning 05/13/2025
Block grants restore power to states and defund the federal prison empire; it’s federalism doing its job.
moderate 05/13/2025
State block grants sound efficient, yet the devil’s in the oversight details we haven’t seen yet.