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‘‘(I) in need of care at a nursing 
home, intermediate care facility, or 
assisted living facility, as those terms 
are defined in section 232 of the Na-
tional 
Housing 
Act 
(12 
U.S.C. 
1715w); or 
‘‘(II) diagnosed with a terminal 
illness.’’. 
(b) INCREASING THE USE AND TRANSPARENCY OF 
COMPASSIONATE RELEASE.—Section 3582 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(1)(A), in the matter pre-
ceding clause (i), by inserting after ‘‘Bureau of Pris-
ons,’’ the following: ‘‘or upon motion of the defend-
ant after the defendant has fully exhausted all ad-
ministrative rights to appeal a failure of the Bureau 
of Prisons to bring a motion on the defendant’s be-
half or the lapse of 30 days from the receipt of such 
a request by the warden of the defendant’s facility, 
whichever is earlier,’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
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‘‘(1) TERMINAL
ILLNESS
DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘terminal illness’ means a dis-
ease or condition with an end-of-life trajectory. 
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION.—The Bureau of Prisons 
shall, subject to any applicable confidentiality re-
quirements— 
‘‘(A) in the case of a defendant diagnosed 
with a terminal illness— 
‘‘(i) not later than 72 hours after the 
diagnosis notify the defendant’s attorney, 
partner, and family members of the de-
fendant’s condition and inform the defend-
ant’s attorney, partner, and family mem-
bers that they may prepare and submit on 
the defendant’s behalf a request for a sen-
tence reduction pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1)(A); 
‘‘(ii) not later than 7 days after the 
date of the diagnosis, provide the defend-
ant’s partner and family members (includ-
ing extended family) with an opportunity 
to visit the defendant in person; 
‘‘(iii) upon request from the defendant 
or his attorney, partner, or a family mem-
ber, ensure that Bureau of Prisons employ-
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ees assist the defendant in the preparation, 
drafting, and submission of a request for a 
sentence reduction pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1)(A); and 
‘‘(iv) not later than 14 days of receipt 
of a request for a sentence reduction sub-
mitted on the defendant’s behalf by the de-
fendant or the defendant’s attorney, part-
ner, or family member, process the re-
quest; 
‘‘(B) in the case of a defendant who is 
physically or mentally unable to submit a re-
quest for a sentence reduction pursuant to sub-
section (c)(1)(A)— 
‘‘(i) inform the defendant’s attorney, 
partner, and family members that they 
may prepare and submit on the defend-
ant’s behalf a request for a sentence reduc-
tion pursuant to subsection (c)(1)(A); 
‘‘(ii) accept and process a request for 
sentence reduction that has been prepared 
and submitted on the defendant’s behalf by 
the defendant’s attorney, partner, or fam-
ily member under clause (i); and 
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‘‘(iii) upon request from the defendant 
or his attorney, partner, or family member, 
ensure that Bureau of Prisons employees 
assist the defendant in the preparation, 
drafting, and submission of a request for a 
sentence reduction pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1)(A); and 
‘‘(C) ensure that all Bureau of Prisons fa-
cilities regularly and visibly post, including in 
prisoner handbooks, staff training materials, 
and facility law libraries and medical and hos-
pice facilities, and make available to prisoners 
upon demand, notice of— 
‘‘(i) a defendant’s ability to request a 
sentence reduction pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1)(A); 
‘‘(ii) the procedures and timelines for 
initiating and resolving requests described 
in clause (i); and 
‘‘(iii) the right to appeal a denial of a 
request described in clause (i) after all ad-
ministrative rights to appeal within the 
Bureau of Prisons have been exhausted. 
‘‘(3) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, and 
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once every year thereafter, the Director of the Bu-
reau of Prisons shall submit to the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a re-
port on requests for sentence reductions pursuant to 
subsection (c)(1)(A), which shall include a descrip-
tion of, for the previous year— 
‘‘(A) the number of prisoners granted and 
denied sentence reductions, categorized by the 
criteria relied on as the grounds for a reduction 
in sentence; 
‘‘(B) the number of requests initiated by 
or on behalf of prisoners, categorized by the cri-
teria relied on as the grounds for a reduction 
in sentence; 
‘‘(C) the number of requests which Bureau 
of Prisons employees assisted prisoners in 
drafting, preparing, or submitting, categorized 
by the criteria relied on as the grounds for a re-
duction in sentence, and the final decision made 
in each request; 
‘‘(D) the number of requests which attor-
neys, partners, or family members submitted on 
a defendant’s behalf, categorized by the criteria 
relied on as the grounds for a reduction in sen-
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tence, and the final decision made in each re-
quest; 
‘‘(E) the number of requests approved by 
the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, cat-
egorized by the criteria relied on as the grounds 
for a reduction in sentence; 
‘‘(F) the number of requests denied by the 
Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the rea-
sons given for each denial, categorized by the 
criteria relied on as the grounds for a reduction 
in sentence; 
‘‘(G) for each request, the time elapsed be-
tween the date the request was received by the 
warden and the final decision, categorized by 
the criteria relied on as the grounds for a re-
duction in sentence; 
‘‘(H) for each request, the number of pris-
oners who died while their request was pending 
and, for each, the amount of time that had 
elapsed between the date the request was re-
ceived by the Bureau of Prisons, categorized by 
the criteria relied on as the grounds for a re-
duction in sentence; 
‘‘(I) the number of Bureau of Prisons noti-
fications to attorneys, partners, and family 
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members of their right to visit a terminally ill 
defendant 
as 
required 
under 
paragraph 
(2)(A)(ii) and, for each, whether a visit oc-
curred and how much time elapsed between the 
notification and the visit; 
‘‘(J) the number of visits to terminally ill 
prisoners that were denied by the Bureau of 
Prisons due to security or other concerns, and 
the reasons given for each denial; and 
‘‘(K) the number of motions filed by de-
fendants with the court after all administrative 
rights to appeal a denial of a sentence reduction 
had been exhausted, the outcome of each mo-
tion, and the time that had elapsed between the 
date the request was first received by the Bu-
reau of Prisons and the date the defendant filed 
the motion with the court.’’. 
SEC. 404. IDENTIFICATION FOR RETURNING CITIZENS. 
(a) IDENTIFICATION AND RELEASE ASSISTANCE FOR 
FEDERAL PRISONERS.—Section 231(b) of the Second 
Chance Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60541(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(including’’ and inserting 
‘‘prior to release from a term of imprisonment 
in a Federal prison or if the individual was not 
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sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a Fed-
eral prison, prior to release from a sentence to 
a term in community confinement, including’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘or birth certificate) prior 
to release’’ and inserting ‘‘and a birth certifi-
cate’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘community confinement’ means residence in a com-
munity treatment center, halfway house, restitution 
center, mental health facility, alcohol or drug reha-
bilitation center, or other community facility.’’. 
(b) DUTIES OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS.—Section 
4042(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (D) and (E) as 
paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively; 
(2) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in clause (i)— 
(i) 
by 
striking 
‘‘Social 
Security 
Cards,’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause 
(iii); 
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(C) by inserting after clause (i) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(ii) obtain identification, including a so-
cial security card, driver’s license or other offi-
cial photo identification, and a birth certificate; 
and’’; 
(D) in clause (iii) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting after ‘‘prior to release’’ the following: 
‘‘from a sentence to a term of imprisonment in 
a Federal prison or if the individual was not 
sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a Fed-
eral prison, prior to release from a sentence to 
a term of community confinement’’; and 
(E) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), and 
(iii) (as so amended) as subparagraphs (A), 
(B), and (C), respectively; and 
(3) in paragraph (7) (as so redesignated), by 
redesignating clauses (i) through (vii) as subpara-
graphs (A) through (G), respectively. 
SEC. 405. EXPANDING INMATE EMPLOYMENT THROUGH 
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES. 
(a) NEW MARKET AUTHORIZATIONS.—Chapter 307 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after section 4129 the following: 
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‘‘§ 4130. Additional markets 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, Federal Prison Industries may sell products 
to— 
‘‘(1) public entities for use in penal or correc-
tional institutions; 
‘‘(2) public entities for use in disaster relief or 
emergency response; 
‘‘(3) the government of the District of Colum-
bia; and 
‘‘(4) any organization described in section 
501(c)(3), (c)(4), or (d) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 that is exempt from taxation under 
section 501(a) of such Code. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘public entity’ means a State, a 
subdivision of a State, an Indian tribe, and an agen-
cy or governmental corporation or business of any of 
the foregoing. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘State’ means a State, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 307 of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
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ed by inserting after the item relating to section 4129 the 
following: 
‘‘4130. Additional markets.’’. 
(c) DEFERRED COMPENSATION.—Section 4126(c)(4) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after ‘‘operations,’’ the following: ‘‘not less than 15 per-
cent of such compensation for any inmate shall be reserved 
in the fund or a separate account and made available to 
assist the inmate with costs associated with release from 
prison,’’. 
SEC. 406. DE-ESCALATION TRAINING. 
Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Pris-
ons shall incorporate into training programs provided to 
officers and employees of the Bureau of Prisons (including 
officers and employees of an organization with which the 
Bureau of Prisons has a contract to provide services relat-
ing to imprisonment) specialized and comprehensive train-
ing in procedures to— 
(1) de-escalate encounters between a law en-
forcement officer or an officer or employee of the 
Bureau of Prisons, and a civilian or a prisoner (as 
such term is defined in section 106 of this Act); and 
(2) identify and appropriately respond to inci-
dents that involve the unique needs of individuals 
who have a mental illness or cognitive deficit. 
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cluding age, sex, race, and the length of the sentence 
imposed. 
(b) REPORT TO JUDICIARY COMMITTEES.—Begin-
ning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter for a period of 7 years, 
the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics shall sub-
mit a report containing the information described in para-
graphs (1) through (26) of subsection (a) to the Commit-
tees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and 
of the Senate. 
SEC. 411. HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY.—The Director of the Bureau of 
Prisons shall make the healthcare products described in 
subsection (c) available to prisoners for free, in a quantity 
that is appropriate to the healthcare needs of each pris-
oner. 
(b) QUALITY PRODUCTS.—The Director shall ensure 
that the healthcare products provided under this section 
conform with applicable industry standards. 
(c) PRODUCTS.—The healthcare products described 
in this subsection are tampons and sanitary napkins. 
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