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This bill boosts transparency and data-driven oversight to improve prenatal and postpartum care for incarcerated people and incentivizes state compliance with funding levers, but it creates administrative burdens, potential funding penalties, and risks of facility-level stigma during implementation.
Pregnant and postpartum people in custody nationwide will be tracked with quarterly statewide data, producing actionable information on gaps in prenatal and postpartum care and enabling identification of practices that can reduce stillbirths, maternal/neonatal deaths, and preterm births.
Public posting of aggregated reports will increase transparency and enable public and congressional accountability for correctional facilities' treatment of pregnant people in custody.
A Department of Justice study and required congressional reporting can identify evidence-based practices and policy changes that improve maternal and neonatal outcomes in custody.
State and local correctional systems will incur new administrative costs and operational burdens to collect, aggregate, and submit detailed quarterly data across custodial facilities.
Noncompliant states risk losing up to 10% of JAG grant funding, which could reduce resources for local public-safety and related programs.
Correctional medical providers and health systems may face rapid changes in recordkeeping and screening practices to meet the new reporting elements and timelines, creating operational strain and potential short-term disruption in care delivery.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires states receiving certain JAG funds to submit quarterly anonymized reports on pregnancies and births in custody with specified data elements and penalties for noncompliance.
Introduced October 31, 2025 by Frederica Wilson · Last progress October 31, 2025
Requires states that receive certain Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) funds to submit quarterly, anonymized aggregate reports to the Attorney General on people who were pregnant or gave birth while in state or local custody. The reports must include specific data elements (counts, race/ethnicity, timing of admission/release, pregnancy testing and prenatal/postpartum care, pregnancy outcomes, use of restraints, restrictive housing, and locations of care), prohibit personally identifiable information, and will be publicly posted. States have 120 days from enactment (plus one possible 120-day extension) to comply; the Attorney General may cut up to 10% of a noncompliant state's relevant JAG formula allocation for later fiscal years and reallocate withheld funds to compliant states. The Attorney General must study the data and report findings to Congress within two years.