Prisons Bureau 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Inmate Discipline Program/Special Housing Units: Subpart Revision and Clarification
Document Number: 2010-30525
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-12-08
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) amends its Inmate Discipline and Special Housing Unit (SHU) regulations. We intend this amendment to streamline and clarify these regulations, eliminating unnecessary text and obsolete language, and removing internal agency procedures that need not be in regulations text. We also make substantive changes to our list of prohibited acts for which disciplinary sanctions may be imposed, and alter the list of possible sanctions available to allow Discipline Hearing Officers more flexibility in adapting the sanction to fit the seriousness of the violation.
Administrative Remedy Program: Exception to Initial Filing Procedures
Document Number: 2010-14715
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-06-18
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) revises current regulations on the Administrative Remedy Program to add an exception to initial filing of Administrative Remedy appeals at the institution level. The exception will state that formal administrative remedy requests regarding initial decisions that did not originate with the Warden, or his/her staff, may be initially filed with the Bureau office which made the original decision, and appealed directly to the General Counsel.
Inmate Communication With News Media: Removal of Byline Regulations
Document Number: 2010-9373
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-04-23
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this interim rule, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) revises its regulations regarding inmate contact with the community to delete two current Bureau regulations that prohibit inmates from publishing under a byline, due to a recent court ruling invalidating Bureau regulation language containing this prohibition.
Communication Management Units
Document Number: 2010-7728
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-04-06
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes to establish and describe Communication Management Units (CMUs) by regulation. CMUs are designed to provide an inmate housing unit environment that enables staff monitoring of all communication between CMU inmates and persons in the community. The ability to monitor such communication is necessary to ensure the safety, security, and orderly operation of correctional facilities, and protect the public. The Bureau currently operates CMUs in two of its facilities. This rule would clarify existing Bureau practices with respect to CMUs.
Commutation of Sentence: Technical Change
Document Number: 2010-6290
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-03-23
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
This document makes a minor technical change to the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) regulations on sentence commutation to clarify that the Bureau staff, who may not be institution-level staff, will recalculate the inmate's sentence in accordance with the terms of the commutation order if a petition for commutation of sentence is granted.
Inmate Access to Inmate Central File: PSRs and SORs
Document Number: 2010-6288
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-03-23
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
The Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes to amend regulations regarding inmate access to Inmate Central File materials to prohibit sentenced inmates incarcerated in Bureau facilities, including those in contract facilities or community confinement, from possessing their Pre-Sentence Investigation Reports (PSRs), Statements of Reasons (SORs), or other similar sentencing documents from criminal judgments. Such inmates under this prohibition will continue to be permitted to review their PSRs and SORs.
Notice of Cancellation of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Criminal Alien Requirement 9
Document Number: 2010-5939
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-03-19
Agency: Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
The Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), announces that it is has decided to discontinue preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Criminal Alien Requirement 9 project (CAR 9). This notice briefly describes the history of the CAR 9 EIS.
Inmate Work and Performance Pay Program
Document Number: 2010-3902
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-03-03
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes to streamline regulations on inmate work and performance pay by removing redundant language and provisions that relate solely to staff guidance.
Intake Screening
Document Number: 2010-878
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-01-20
Agency: Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons Bureau
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes to streamline intake screening regulations by removing internal agency management procedures that need not be stated in regulation.
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