1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prison Staffing Reform Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Bureau of Prisons has 121 institutions located throughout the United States and employs nearly 35,000 employees. Understaffing across the agency jeopardizes the health, safety, and well-being of staff and inmates alike. (2) Understaffing at Bureau of Prison institutions poses a threat to inmates, who will consequently lack access to lifesaving medical care, efficient review of their casework, sanitary living conditions, access to vital recidivism reduction programming, and protections against abuse or sexual misconduct. (3) Understaffing at Bureau of Prison institutions will also result in reduced staff safety, escalated workplace abuse, stressful work conditions, enhanced mental and physical health concerns, and unacceptably long work shifts for employees. (4) Mandated overtime, misuse of augmentation or reassignment, and overworked employees will reduce prison security and threaten public safety. 3. Comprehensive review of understaffing across Bureau of Prisons (a) Review Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall— (1) complete a thorough external review, in accordance with subsection (b), of staffing across the Bureau of Prisons, as well as the impact of any understaffing on employees, individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, and overall agency spending; and (2) submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Council of Prison Locals C–33 within the American Federation of Government Employees Organization— (A) a plan for recruiting job applicants, filling vacancies, reducing mandated overtime and misuse of augmentation, and strengthening staffing across the Bureau of Prisons