Sec. 2. Improving the treatment of primary caretaker parents and other individuals in federal prisons
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Chapter 303 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: In this section— the term correctional officer means a correctional officer of the Bureau of Prisons; the term covered institution means a Federal penal or correctional institution; the term Director means the Director of the Bureau of Prisons; the term post-partum recovery has the meaning given the term postpartum recovery in section 4322; the term primary caretaker parent has the meaning given the term in section 31903 of the Family Unity Demonstration Project Act ( 34 U.S.C. 12242 ); the term prisoner means an individual who is incarcerated in a covered institution, including a vulnerable person; and the term vulnerable person means an individual who— is under 21 years of age or over 60 years of age; is pregnant; identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex; is victim of or witness to a crime; has filed a nonfrivolous civil rights claim in Federal or State court; has a serious mental or physical illness or disability; or during the period of incarceration, has been determined to have experienced or to be experiencing severe trauma or to be the victim of gender-based violence— by any court or administrative judicial proceeding; by any corrections official; by the individual’s attorney or legal service provider; or by the individual.
The Director shall promulgate regulations for visitation between prisoners who are primary caretaker parents and their family members under which— a prisoner may receive visits not fewer than 6 days per week, which shall include Saturday and Sunday; a Federal penal or correctional institution shall be open for visitation for not fewer than 8 hours per day; a prisoner may have up to 5 adult visitors and an unlimited number of child visitors per visit; and a prisoner may have physical contact with visitors unless the prisoner presents an immediate physical danger to the visitors.
A covered institution may not place a prisoner who is pregnant or in post-partum recovery in a segregated housing unit unless the prisoner presents an immediate risk of harm to the prisoner or others. Any placement of a prisoner described in subparagraph
(A)in a segregated housing unit shall be limited and temporary. The Director shall provide parenting classes to each prisoner who is a primary caretaker parent. The Director shall provide training to each correctional officer and each employee of the Bureau of Prisons who regularly interacts with prisoners, including each instructor and health care professional, to enable those correctional officers and employees to— identify a prisoner who has a mental or physical health need relating to trauma the prisoner has experienced; and refer a prisoner described in paragraph
(1)to the proper healthcare professional for treatment. The Attorney General shall designate an ombudsman to oversee and monitor, with respect to Federal penal and correctional institutions— prisoner transportation; use of segregated housing; strip searches of prisoners; and civil rights violations. The Director— may not charge a fee for a telephone call made by a prisoner; and shall make videoconferencing available to prisoners in each Federal penal or correctional institution free of charge. Nothing in paragraph (1)(B) shall be construed to authorize the Director to use videoconferencing as a substitute for in-person visits. The Director shall ensure that all prisoners receive adequate health care. The Director shall make the healthcare products described in subparagraph
(C)available to prisoners for free, in a quantity that is appropriate to the healthcare needs of each prisoner. The Director shall ensure that the healthcare products provided under this paragraph conform with applicable industry standards. The healthcare products described in this subparagraph are— tampons; sanitary napkins; moisturizing soap, which may not be lye-based; shampoo; body lotion; Vaseline; toothpaste; toothbrushes; aspirin; ibuprofen; and any other healthcare product that the Director determines appropriate. The Director shall ensure that all prisoners have access to a gynecologist as appropriate. The Director shall make rules under which— a correctional officer may not conduct a strip search of a prisoner of the opposite sex unless— the prisoner presents a risk of immediate harm to the prisoner or others, and no other correctional officer of the same sex as the prisoner, or medical staff, is available to assist; or the prisoner has previously requested that an officer of a different sex conduct searches; a correctional officer may not enter a restroom reserved for prisoners of the opposite sex unless— a prisoner in the restroom presents a risk of immediate harm to the prisoner or others; or there is a medical emergency in the restroom and no other correctional officer of the appropriate sex is available to assist; a transgender prisoner’s sex shall be determined according to the sex with which the prisoner identifies; and a correctional officer may not search or physically examine a prisoner for the sole purpose of determining the prisoner’s genital status or sex. Nothing in paragraph
(1)shall be construed to affect the requirements under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 ( 34 U.S.C. 30301 et seq.). . Section 3621(e) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Director of the Bureau of Prisons may not prohibit an eligible prisoner who is a primary caretaker parent (as defined in section 4051) or pregnant from participating in a program of residential substance abuse treatment provided under paragraph
(1)on the basis of a failure by the eligible prisoner, before being committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, to disclose to any official of the Bureau of Prisons that the eligible prisoner had a substance abuse problem on or before the date on which the eligible prisoner was committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons. . Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report on the implementation of this section and the amendments made by this section. The table of sections for chapter 303 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 4051. Treatment of primary caretaker parents and other individuals. . Section 611 of the First Step Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–391 ; 132 Stat. 5194) is repealed.
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Improving the treatment of primary caretaker parents and other individuals in federal prisons
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