{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-bill-blocks-biden-plan-to-place-men-in-female-prisons", "Cotton Bill Blocks Biden Plan to Place Men in Female Prisons", "2022-01-12", "2022", "2022-01", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353\n\nJanuary 12, 2022\n\nCotton Bill Blocks Biden Plan to Place Men in Female Prisons\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act, legislation to prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from housing prisoners with persons of the opposite sex. Text of the bill may be found here.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s plan to house male and female prisoners together will put women in danger. Documented cases prove that placing men\u2014including ones who \u2018identify\u2019 as female\u2014in women\u2019s prisons puts female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault. My bill will stop the president\u2019s ill-conceived plan and keep men and women separated in federal prison,\u201d said Cotton.\n\nThe American Principles Project, Heritage Action, and Concerned Women for America LCA support this bill.\n\nThe Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act would:\n\nForbid the Bureau of Prisons from using asserted \u201cgender identity\u201d to house inmates of one sex with inmates of the opposite sex.\n\nAs a condition of receiving certain federal law enforcement grant funds, forbid state correctional institutions from using gender identity to house inmates of one sex with inmates of the opposite sex.\n\nThe Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act would not:\n\nPrevent prisons from designating a separate housing option for inmates based on their asserted \u201cgender identity,\u201d as long as they are not housed with inmates of the opposite sex.\n\nFor example, a prison would be free to set up specific housing units for transgender inmates based on security, medical, or programming needs, but would not be allowed co-locate those inmates with inmates of the opposite sex.\n\nProhibit co-locating male and female prisoners for reasons unrelated to asserted \u201cgender identity.\u201d\n\nFor example, a state or federal institution would still be allowed to use short-term detention cells in a courthouse to house both male and female prisoners during a trial in which they are both witnesses, subject to normal security considerations to protect all detainees.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:50:39Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-bill-blocks-biden-plan-to-place-men-in-female-prisons"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9023400489240885, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}