Sec. 6. 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 and September 30 of each year, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the Director of the United States Marshals Service shall each prepare and transmit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a semi-annual assessment of the use of solitary confinement (as defined in section 4052(a)) in covered facilities and shall make the respective assessment publicly available on the website of the Bureau of Prisons or the United States Marshals Service, as applicable. Each assessment submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include— the policies and regulations of the Bureau of Prisons, including any changes in policies and regulations, and the United States Marshals Service for determining which inmates are placed in each form of solitary confinement, or housing in which an inmate is separated from the general population 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 (as defined in section 4052(a)), and all communication management units; the total number of inmates and percentage of individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshals Service, listed separately, who are housed in each type of solitary confinement described in subparagraph
(A)at the time of the report, and the total number and the percentage of all inmates who have spent at least some time in each form of solitary confinement during the reporting period; the reason for placement, including disciplinary segregation, protective custody, administrative segregation, or other segregation and the length of time in restrictive housing; the demographics of all inmates housed in each type of solitary confinement described in subparagraph (A), including race, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, mental health care level, pregnancy or post-partum status, or identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming; the policies and regulations of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshals Service, 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 appeals for each type of solitary confinement placement described in subparagraph
(A)that occurred during the reporting period and the number of reviews or appeals that directly resulted in a change of placement; a description of the general conditions and restrictions for each type of solitary confinement described in subparagraph (A), including the number of hours spent in confinement in a cell separated from the general population or in restraints, and the percentage of time these conditions involve housing a single inmate in a cell; 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, administrative maximum facilities, 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 individual daily fixed cost for each form of solitary confinement described in subparagraph
(A)in use during the reporting period, including as compared with the average daily fixed cost of housing an inmate in the general population; statistics for inmate assaults on correctional officers and staff of the Bureau of Prisons or the United States Marshals Service, 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 and the United States Marshals Service during the reporting period, a description of the different positions in the mental health staff of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshals Service, and the number of part- and full-time psychologists and psychiatrists employed by the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshals Service 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 of inmates diagnosed with an intellectual disability; the number of inmates diagnosed with a 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 force-feeding of inmates; the type and number of hours of programming received by inmates in restrictive housing; and any other relevant data. .