Sec. 603. Trauma-informed and gender-responsive training and staffing
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The Director of the Bureau of Prisons, in collaboration with the Bureau of Prisons Health Services Department, the Bureau of Prisons Women and Special Populations Branch, and the Department of Health & Human Services, shall develop and implement gender-responsive training for Bureau of Prisons officers and employees which shall include incorporating gender-responsive components to all existing training for all correctional officers and employees, and shall include separate training on the unique needs of incarcerated women for all correctional officers and employees in facilities that house women and female juveniles, and all such trainings shall include training on— common characteristics of female incarcerated persons, including data on the numbers of women in Bureau of Prisons custody, and generally the race, charges, age, and common sentences of women in the criminal justice system; reasons why women enter the criminal justice system, and gender-responsive policy and practice that target women’s pathways to criminality by providing effective interventions that address the intersecting issues of substance abuse, trauma, mental health, and economic marginality; the high rates of trauma that justice involved women are exposed to; the high rates of mental health diagnosis among women justice-involved individuals; the menstrual needs, general health, and reproductive health care needs, of women; the high rates of motherhood amongst female incarcerated persons, and their ongoing roles as mothers and community members; and the low risk to public safety created by the typical offenses committed by justice-involved women.
The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall ensure that correctional employees dedicated to the Women And Special Populations Branch be— sufficient to ensure consistent, professional supervision of female incarcerated persons; sufficient to ensure proper gender-responsive implementation of Bureau of Prisons polices and legislative mandates; sufficient to properly evaluate programming needs, develop, and administer programs for all eligible female incarcerated persons; sufficient to ensure that women prisoners in the Bureau of Prisons are healthy and safe from harm; and shall not be less than twelve full time employees.