Improving the Bureau of Prisons Resolve Trauma Therapy Program

(a) Generally The Director shall ensure that the Resolve Trauma Therapy Program is offered at all institutions that house female incarcerated persons, and that all female incarcerated persons who seek treatment through the Resolve Trauma Therapy Program have access to such program beginning during the first twelve months of the incarcerated person’s sentence. (b) Resolve program prerequisite notice and access The Director shall ensure that all female incarcerated persons are provided notice of the Resolve Program and the prerequisites for admittance into the program. Any such prerequisites, which may include a Trauma in Life seminar and psychological screening test, shall be offered to all female incarcerated persons to begin within 60 days of intake into the Bureau of Prisons. (c) Resolve program staffing The Director shall ensure that sufficient correctional employees are employed at each facility that houses female incarcerated persons, in order to comply with this section, which shall include, at minimum, one Resolve Coordinator at each location and one Treatment Specialist, but may include any number of correctional employees as needed. (d) Spanish language resolve program The Director shall ensure that the Resolve Program is offered in Spanish and accessible for all Spanish-speaking female incarcerated persons. (e) Report Beginning on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives and the Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives that contains the following: (1) The number of female incarcerated persons who complete the Trauma in Life seminar and psychological screening test prerequisites for access to the Resolve Program, and whether each incarcerated person began such Resolve Program prerequisites within 60 days of intake into the Bureau of Prisons, and if not within 60 days of intake when they began program prerequisites. (2) The number of female incarcerated persons who complete the Resolve Program, annually, and whether such program participation began within 1 year of intake into the Bureau of Prisons, and if not, how soon such program participation began and was completed. (3) The number of individuals on waitlists, if any, for Resolve Program access. (4) The number of full-time correctional employees dedicated to work within the Resolve Program and vacancies during the previous calendar year. (5) The number of female incarcerated persons who complete the Resolve Program in Spanish, and the number of Spanish-speaking female incarcerated persons who are on waitlists for program access. (6) The number of female incarcerated persons who qualify for Resolve Program access but were not afforded participation in the program before release.