SEC. 3. CARE FOR FEDERALLY INCARCERATED WOMEN RE-
LATED TO PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Bureau of 
Prisons shall ensure that appropriate services and pro-
grams are provided to women in custody, to address the 
health and safety needs of such women related to preg-
nancy and childbirth. The warden of each Bureau of Pris-
ons facility that houses women shall ensure that these 
services and programs are implemented for women in cus-
tody at that facility. 
(b) SERVICES AND PROGRAMS PROVIDED.—The Di-
rector of the Bureau of Prisons shall ensure that the fol-
lowing services and programs are available to women in 
custody: 
(1) 
ACCESS
TO
COMPLETE
APPROPRIATE 
HEALTH
SERVICES
FOR
THE
LIFE
CYCLE
OF 
WOMEN.—The Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
shall provide to each woman in custody who is of re-
productive age pregnancy testing, contraception, and 
testing for sexually transmitted diseases and provide 
each woman with the option to decline such services. 
(2) COMPLIANCE WITH PROTOCOLS RELATING 
TO HEALTH OF A PREGNANT WOMAN.—On confirma-
tion of the pregnancy of a woman in custody by clin-
ical diagnostics and assessment, the chief health 
care professional of a Bureau of Prisons facility that 
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houses women shall ensure that a summary of all 
appropriate protocols directly pertaining to the safe-
ty and well-being of the woman are provided to the 
woman and that such protocols are complied with, 
including an assessment of undue safety risks and 
necessary changes to accommodate the woman where 
and when appropriate, as it relates to— 
(A) housing or transfer to a lower bunk for 
safety reasons; 
(B) appropriate bedding or clothing to re-
spond to a woman’s changing physical require-
ments and the temperature in housing units; 
(C) regular access to water and bathrooms; 
(D) a diet that complies with the nutri-
tional standards established by the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services in the Dietary Guidelines for 
Americans report published pursuant to section 
301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and 
Related Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
5341(a)(3)), and that includes— 
(i) any appropriate dietary supple-
ment, including prenatal vitamins; 
(ii) timely and regular nutritious 
meals; 
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(iii) additional caloric content in 
meals provided; 
(iv) a prohibition on withholding food 
from an incarcerated pregnant woman or 
serving any food that is used as a punish-
ment, including nutraloaf or any food simi-
lar to nutraloaf that is not considered a 
nutritious meal; and 
(v) such other modifications to the 
diet of the woman as the Director of the 
Bureau of Prisons determines to be nec-
essary after consultation with the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services and 
consideration of such recommendations as 
the Secretary may provide; 
(E) modified recreation and transpor-
tation, in accordance with standards within the 
obstetrical and gynecological care community, 
to prevent overexertion or prolonged periods of 
inactivity; and 
(F) such other changes to living conditions 
as the Director of the Bureau of Prisons may 
require after consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and consideration 
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of such recommendations as the Secretary may 
provide. 
(3) EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES.— 
(A) PREGNANCY IN CUSTODY.—In the case 
of a woman who is pregnant at intake or who 
becomes pregnant while in custody, that woman 
shall, at intake or not later than 48 hours after 
pregnancy is confirmed, as appropriate, receive 
prenatal education, counseling, and birth sup-
port services provided by a provider trained to 
provide such services, including— 
(i) information about the parental 
rights of the woman, including the right to 
place the child in kinship care, and notice 
of the rights of the child; 
(ii) information about family preserva-
tion support services that are available to 
the woman; 
(iii) information about the nutritional 
standards referred to in paragraph (2)(D); 
(iv) information pertaining to the 
health and safety risks of pregnancy, child-
birth, and parenting, including postpartum 
depression; 
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(v) information on breastfeeding, lac-
tation, and breast health; 
(vi) appropriate educational materials, 
resources, and services related to preg-
nancy, childbirth, and parenting; 
(vii) information and notification serv-
ices for incarcerated parents regarding the 
risk of debt repayment obligations associ-
ated with their child’s participation in so-
cial welfare programs, including assistance 
under any State program funded under 
part A of title IV of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or benefits 
under the supplemental nutrition assist-
ance program, as defined in section 3 of 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012), or any State program car-
ried out under that Act; and 
(viii) information from the Office of 
Child Support Enforcement of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services re-
garding seeking or modifying child support 
while incarcerated, including how to par-
ticipate in the Bureau of Prison’s Inmate 
Financial Responsibility Program under 
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