; purposes (a) Immediate release of vulnerable and low-Risk individuals The purpose of the grant program under section 3062 is to provide for the testing, initiation and transfer to treatment in the community, and provision of services in the community, by States and units of local government as they relate to preventing, detecting, and stopping the spread of COVID–19 in correctional facilities. (b) Pretrial citation and release (1) Findings Congress finds as follows: (A) With the dramatic growth in pretrial detention resulting in county and city correctional facilities regularly exceeding capacity, such correctional facilities may serve to rapidly increase the spread of COVID–19, as facilities that hold large numbers of individuals in congregant living situations may promote the spread of COVID–19. (B) While individuals arrested and processed at local correctional facilities may only be held for hours or days, exposure to large number of individuals in holding cells and courtrooms promotes the spread of COVID–19. (C) Pretrial detainees and individuals in correctional facilities are then later released into the community having being exposed to COVID–19. (2) Purpose The purpose of the grant program under section 3063 is to substantially increase the use of risk-based citation release for all individuals who do not present a public safety risk. 3062. Immediate release of vulnerable and low-risk individuals (a) Authorization The Attorney General shall carry out a grant program to make grants to States and units of local government that operate correctional facilities, to establish and implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, and stop the presence and spread of COVID–19 among arrestees, detainees, inmates, correctional facility staff, and visitors to the facilities. (b) Program eligibility (1) In general Eligible applicants under this section are States and units of local government that release or have a plan to release the persons described in paragraph (2) from custody in order to meet 80 percent of