Focusing supervision on the rehabilitation of women

(a) Training requirement The Chief United States Probation Officer shall ensure that all training for probation officers shall include— (1) that all individuals enrolled in the academy fulfill a training session on gender-informed supervision practices; and (2) gender-informed supervision practices shall include evidence-based training on the specific needs of women who enter the justice system and have been incarcerated, and shall include training on trauma, sexual and physical abuse, family issues, physical and mental health issues, hygiene issues, racial disparities in the arrests of and law enforcement contacts with women, and issues related to the supervision and arrest of parents, including the identification and appropriate responses to a child, present or not present, whose parent is supervised, arrested, searched, or otherwise, in order to help minimize potential trauma and support a child’s physical safety and well-being. (b) Successful rehabiliation Section 3603(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking to aid a probationer or a person on supervised release who is under his supervision, and to bring about improvements in his conduct and condition and inserting to effect the successful rehabilitation and reintegration of a probationer or a person on supervised release into society, using trauma-informed and restorative techniques with an understanding of the collateral consequences of conviction.