Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act (BOP Staff Sexual Harassment & Assault Standards)
Current understanding
S307 would require the Department of Justice to adopt national standards for preventing, detecting, and punishing sexual harassment and assault of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff by incarcerated individuals, and would direct BOP to implement outstanding DOJ Office of Inspector General recommendations on staff safety. The measure focuses on protections for correctional workers rather than incarcerated people, complementing existing PREA-style frameworks that address assaults on inmates. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2024-12-20 — Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act: cross-connection with bop-staff-safety-enhancement: Apparent duplicate slugs for the same S5062 bill; consider consolidating into a single canonical page. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-05-05 — Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act: cross-connection with prison-rape-prevention: Both establish federal standards for sexual misconduct in detention settings, but with inverted affected groups: PREA-style measures protect incarcerated people from assault, while S307 protects correctional staff from assault by incarcerated individuals. (novelty: 2)