Control, Custody, Care, Treatment and Instruction of Inmates; Incoming Publications and Inmate Legal Activities

Resumen

In this document, the Bureau of Prisons is proposing to amend its regulations on Incoming Publications in order to require that inmates in medium security, high security, and administrative institutions may receive softcover publications only from the publisher, book club, or bookstore. Current regulations allow for these items to be received from any source. The proposed amendment also allows for the Warden to make an exception to this requirement and to the existing similar requirement for hardcover publications and newspapers. This change is being proposed in order to simplify security procedures designed to prevent the introduction of contraband into Bureau institutions. Provisions in the Bureau's regulations on Inmate Legal Activities which restate the Bureau's policy on receipt of incoming publications would be modified accordingly as a conforming amendment.