(6) offer opportunities for postpartum individ-
uals to maintain contact with the individual’s new-
born child to promote bonding, including enhanced 
visitation policies, access to prison nursery pro-
grams, or breastfeeding support; 
(7) provide reentry assistance, particularly to— 
(A) ensure continuity of health insurance 
coverage if an incarcerated individual exits the 
criminal justice system during such individual’s 
pregnancy or in the postpartum period; and 
(B) connect individuals exiting the criminal 
justice system during pregnancy or in the 
postpartum period to community-based re-
sources, such as referrals to health care pro-
viders and social services that address social de-
terminants of health like housing, employment 
opportunities, transportation, and nutrition; or 
(8) establish partnerships with local public enti-
ties, private community entities, community-based 
organizations, Indian Tribes and tribal organizations 
(as such terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(25 U.S.C. 5304)), and urban Indian organizations 
(as such term is defined in section 4 of the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603)) to 
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establish or expand pretrial diversion programs as 
an alternative to incarceration for pregnant and 
postpartum individuals. Such programs may in-
clude— 
(A) parenting classes; 
(B) prenatal health coordination; 
(C) family and individual counseling; 
(D) evidence-based screenings, education, 
and, as needed, treatment for mental and be-
havioral health conditions, including drug and 
alcohol treatments; 
(E) family case management services; 
(F) domestic violence education and pre-
vention; 
(G) physical and sexual abuse counseling; 
and 
(H) programs to address social deter-
minants of health such as employment, housing, 
education, transportation, and nutrition. 
(f) IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING.—A selected 
facility shall be responsible for— 
(1) implementing programs, which may include 
the programs described in subsection (e); and 
(2) not later than 3 years after the date of en-
actment of this Act, and not 6 years after the date 
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of enactment of this Act, reporting results of the 
programs to the Director, including information de-
scribing— 
(A) relevant quantitative indicators of suc-
cess in improving the standard of care and 
health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum 
incarcerated individuals who participated in 
such programs, including data stratified by 
race, ethnicity, sex, age, geography, disability 
status, the category of the criminal charge 
against such individual, rates of pregnancy-re-
lated deaths, pregnancy-associated deaths, cases 
of infant mortality, cases of severe maternal 
morbidity, cases of violence against pregnant or 
postpartum individuals, diagnoses of maternal 
mental or behavioral health conditions, and 
other such information as appropriate; 
(B) relevant qualitative evaluations from 
pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individ-
uals who participated in such programs, includ-
ing subjective measures of patient-reported ex-
perience of care; 
(C) evaluations of cost effectiveness; and 
(D) strategies to sustain such programs 
beyond 2026. 
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(g) REPORT.—Not later than 7 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to the 
Attorney General and to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
describing the results of the programs funded under this 
section. 
(h) OVERSIGHT.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
award a contract to an independent organization or inde-
pendent organizations to conduct oversight of the pro-
grams described in subsection (e). 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 
SEC. 5. GRANT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH 
OUTCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN STATE AND 
LOCAL PRISONS AND JAILS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, 
acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice As-
sistance, shall award Justice for Incarcerated Moms 
grants to States to establish or expand programs in State 
and local prisons and jails for pregnant and postpartum 
incarcerated individuals. The Attorney General shall 
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award such grants in consultation with stakeholders such 
as— 
(1) relevant community-based organizations, 
particularly organizations that represent incarcer-
ated and formerly incarcerated individuals and orga-
nizations that seek to improve maternal health out-
comes for minority women; 
(2) relevant organizations representing patients, 
with a particular focus on minority patients; 
(3) relevant organizations representing mater-
nal health care providers; 
(4) nonclinical perinatal health workers such as 
doulas, community health workers, peer supporters, 
certified lactation consultants, nutritionists and di-
etitians, social workers, home visitors, and naviga-
tors; and 
(5) researchers and policy experts in fields re-
lated to women’s health care for incarcerated indi-
viduals. 
(b) APPLICATIONS.—Each applicant for a grant 
under this section shall submit to the Director of the Bu-
reau of Justice Assistance an application at such time, in 
such manner, and containing such information as the Di-
rector may require. 
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