Sec. 3. Data collection
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Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, pursuant to the authority under section 302 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10132 ), the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics shall include in the National Prisoner Statistics Program and Annual Survey of Jails statistics relating to the health needs of incarcerated pregnant women in the criminal justice system at the Federal, State, Tribal, and local levels, including— demographic and other information about incarcerated women who are pregnant, in labor, or in postpartum recovery, including the race, ethnicity, and age of the woman; the provision of pregnancy care and services provided for such women, including— whether prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery check-up visits were scheduled and provided; whether a social worker, psychologist, doula or other support person was offered and provided during pregnancy and delivery and post-delivery; whether a pregnancy or parenting program was offered and provided during pregnancy; whether a nursery or residential program to keep mothers and infants together post-delivery was offered and whether such a nursery or residential program was provided; the number of days the mother stayed in the hospital post-delivery; the number of days the infant remained with the mother post-delivery; and the number of days the infant remained in the hospital after the mother was discharged; the location of the nearest hospital with a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist in proximity to where the incarcerated pregnant woman is housed and the length of travel required to transport the woman; whether a written policy or protocol is in place— to respond to unexpected childbirth, labor, deliveries, or medical complications related to the pregnancies of incarcerated pregnant women; and for incarcerated pregnant women experiencing labor or medical complications related to pregnancy outside of a hospital; the number of incarcerated women who are determined by a health care professional to have a high-risk pregnancy; the total number of incarcerated pregnant women and the number of incarcerated women who became pregnant while incarcerated; the number of incidents in which an incarcerated woman who is pregnant, in labor, or in postpartum recovery is placed in restrictive housing, the reason for such restriction or placement, and the circumstances under which each incident occurred, including the duration of time in restrictive housing, during— pregnancy; labor; delivery; postpartum recovery; and the 6-month period after delivery; and the disposition of the custody of the infant post-delivery.
Data collected under this section may not contain any personally identifiable information of any incarcerated pregnant woman or woman in postpartum recovery.
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