scope:

Scope and Applicability.

This policy applies to all Navy MCF authorized to confine women offenders per reference (a) and the transportation, restraint, and supervision of women offenders within or in transit to such MCFs.

Purpose

a. To implement gender-responsive strategies and principles in the management of women offenders within the Navy Corrections System.

b. Major changes include on-unit hair braiding between women offenders to allow hair styling and braiding between women offenders to be conducted in the barbershop under staff supervision; the requirement to conduct frisk searches of women offenders outside of the view of male prisoners changed to, where possible; the requirement to separate male and female visitation has been removed; the requirement has been added for each Navy military correctional facility (MCF), which confines women, to appoint in writing a senior staff member responsible for advising the commanding officer (CO) or officer in charge (OIC) on women's policy and procedural matters; a training update has been made to change job qualification requirements to personnel qualification standard for Navy corrections ashore (NA VEDTRA 43387-3A).