‘‘(1) PLACEMENT
IN
SEGREGATED
HOUSING 
UNITS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A Federal penal or 
correctional institution may not place a prisoner 
who is pregnant or in the first 8 weeks of 
postpartum recovery in a segregated housing 
unit unless the prisoner presents an immediate 
risk of harm to others or herself. 
‘‘(B) RESTRICTIONS.—Any placement of a 
prisoner described in subparagraph (A) in a 
segregated housing unit shall be limited and 
temporary. 
‘‘(2) PROHIBITION ON SHACKLING.—A Federal 
penal or correctional institution may not use instru-
ments of restraint, including handcuffs, chains, 
irons, straitjackets, or similar items, on a prisoner 
who is pregnant. 
‘‘(e) PARENTING CLASSES.—The Director shall pro-
vide parenting classes to each prisoner who is a primary 
caretaker parent. 
‘‘(f) TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall provide 
trauma-informed care to each prisoner who is diag-
nosed with trauma. 
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‘‘(2) IDENTIFICATION
AND
REFERRAL.—The 
Director shall provide training to each correctional 
officer and each other employee of the Bureau of 
Prisons who regularly interacts with prisoners, in-
cluding health care professionals and instructors, to 
enable the employees to identify prisoners with trau-
ma and refer those prisoners to the proper health 
care professional for treatment. 
‘‘(g) MENTORING BY FORMER PRISONERS.—The Di-
rector shall promulgate regulations under which an indi-
vidual who was formerly incarcerated in a Federal penal 
or correctional institution may access such an institution 
to— 
‘‘(1) act as a mentor for prisoners; and 
‘‘(2) assist prisoners in reentry. 
‘‘(h) OMBUDSMAN.—The Attorney General shall des-
ignate an ombudsman to oversee and monitor, with re-
spect to Federal penal and correctional institutions— 
‘‘(1) prisoner transportation; 
‘‘(2) use of segregated housing; 
‘‘(3) strip searches of prisoners; and 
‘‘(4) civil rights violations. 
‘‘(i) TELECOMMUNICATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director— 
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‘‘(A) may not charge a fee for a telephone 
call made by a prisoner to their child; and 
‘‘(B) shall make videoconferencing avail-
able to prisoners in each Federal penal or cor-
rectional institution, which shall be free of 
charge in the case of videoconference between a 
prisoner and the prisoner’s child. 
‘‘(2) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
paragraph (1)(B) shall be construed to authorize the 
Director to use videoconferencing as a substitute for 
in-person visits. 
‘‘(j) GYNECOLOGIST ACCESS.—The Director shall en-
sure that female prisoners have access to a gynecologist. 
‘‘(k) USE OF SEX-APPROPRIATE CORRECTIONAL OF-
FICERS.— 
‘‘(1) REGULATIONS.—The Director shall pro-
mulgate regulations under which— 
‘‘(A) a correctional officer may not conduct 
a strip search of a prisoner of the opposite sex 
unless— 
‘‘(i) the prisoner presents a risk of 
immediate harm to herself or himself or 
others; and 
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‘‘(ii) no other correctional officer of 
the same sex as the prisoner is available to 
assist; and 
‘‘(B) a correctional officer may not enter a 
restroom reserved for prisoners of the opposite 
sex unless— 
‘‘(i)(I) a prisoner in the restroom pre-
sents a risk of immediate harm to herself 
or himself or others; or 
‘‘(II) there is a medical emergency in 
the restroom; and 
‘‘(ii) no other correctional officer of 
the appropriate sex is available to assist. 
‘‘(2) RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in 
paragraph (1) shall be construed to affect the re-
quirements under the Prison Rape Elimination Act 
of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 15601 et seq.).’’. 
(b) 
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE
TREATMENT.—Section 
3621(e) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) ELIGIBILITY
OF
PRIMARY
CARETAKER 
PARENTS AND PREGNANT WOMEN.—The Bureau of 
Prisons may not prohibit a prisoner who is a pri-
mary caretaker parent (as defined in section 4050) 
or pregnant from participating in a program of resi-
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dential substance abuse treatment provided under 
paragraph (1) based on the failure of the individual, 
before being committed to the custody of the Bu-
reau, to disclose to any official that the individual 
had a substance abuse problem.’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
The table of sections for chapter 303 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘4050. Treatment of primary caretaker parents and other individuals.’’. 
SEC. 3. OVERNIGHT VISIT PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Bureau of Prisons; 
(2) the term ‘‘primary caretaker parent’’ has 
the meaning given the term in section 31903 of the 
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 
1994 (42 U.S.C. 13882); and 
(3) the term ‘‘prisoner’’ means an individual 
who is incarcerated in a Federal penal or correc-
tional institution. 
(b) PILOT PROGRAM.—The Director shall carry out 
a pilot program under which prisoners who are primary 
caretaker parents and meet eligibility criteria established 
by the Director may receive overnight visits from family 
members. 
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