Sec. 5. Data tracking of use of solitary confinement
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Section 4047 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than March 31 of each year, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall prepare and transmit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives an annual assessment of the use of solitary confinement by the Bureau of Prisons, as defined in section 4050(a). Each assessment submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include— the policies and regulations of the Bureau of Prisons, including any changes in policies and regulations, for determining which inmates are placed in each form of solitary confinement, or housing in which an inmate is separated from the general population in use during the reporting period, and a detailed description of each form of solitary confinement in use, including all maximum and high security facilities, all special housing units, all special management units, all Administrative Maximum facilities, including the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum in Florence, Colorado, and all Communication Management Units; the number of inmates in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons who are housed in each type of solitary confinement for any period and the percentage of all inmates who have spent at least some time in each form of solitary confinement during the reporting period; the demographics of all inmates housed in each type of solitary confinement described in subparagraph (A), including race, ethnicity, religion, age, and gender; the policies and regulations of the Bureau of Prisons, including any updates in policies and regulations, for subsequent reviews or appeals of the placement of an inmate into or out of solitary confinement; the number of reviews of and challenges to each type of solitary confinement placement described in subparagraph
(A)conducted during the reporting period and the number of reviews or appeals that directly resulted in a change of placement; the general conditions and restrictions for each type of solitary confinement described in subparagraph (A), including the number of hours spent in isolation, or restraint, for each, and the percentage of time these conditions involve single-inmate housing; the mean and median length of stay in each form of solitary confinement described in subparagraph (A), based on all individuals released from solitary confinement during the reporting period, including maximum and high security facilities, special housing units, special management units, the Administrative Maximum facilities, including the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum in Florence, Colorado, Communication Management Units, and any maximum length of stay during the reporting period; the number of inmates who, after a stay of 5 or more days in solitary confinement, were released directly from solitary confinement to the public during the reporting period; the cost for each form of solitary confinement described in subparagraph
(A)in use during the reporting period, including as compared with the average daily cost of housing an inmate in the general population; statistics for inmate assaults on correctional officers and staff of the Bureau of Prisons, inmate-on-inmate assaults, and staff-on-inmate use of force incidents in the various forms of solitary confinement described in subparagraph
(A)and statistics for such assaults in the general population; the policies for mental health screening, mental health treatment, and subsequent mental health reviews for all inmates, including any update to the policies, and any additional screening, treatment, and monitoring for inmates in solitary confinement; a statement of the types of mental health staff that conducted mental health assessments for the Bureau of Prisons during the reporting period, a description of the different positions in the mental health staff of the Bureau of Prisons, and the number of part- and full-time psychologists and psychiatrists employed by the Bureau of Prisons during the reporting period; data on mental health and medical indicators for all inmates in solitary confinement, including— the number of inmates requiring medication for mental health conditions; the number diagnosed with an intellectual disability; the number diagnosed with serious mental illness; the number of suicides; the number of attempted suicides and number of inmates placed on suicide watch; the number of instances of self-harm committed by inmates; the number of inmates with physical disabilities, including blind, deaf, and mobility-impaired inmates; and the number of instances of forced feeding of inmates; and any other relevant data. .