Paroling, Recommitting, and Supervising Federal Prisoners: Transfer Treaty Prisoners

Résumé

The U.S. Parole Commission is amending its regulations to extend the time within which the Commission normally conducts a hearing for a prisoner who is transferred to the United States to serve a foreign sentence. The extension is from four months to six months. This extension reflects the need for the preparation of postsentence reports supported by translations of foreign court documents, and for completion of other procedures (including a thorough prehearing assessment by Commission staff) prior to conducting a hearing to determine a release date and a period and conditions of supervised release. The Commission is also amending its regulations to permit the agency to render a determination without a hearing in the case of a transferee who is given a release date by the Bureau of Prisons that is less than six months from the date the transferee enters the United States. These are cases in which the time is too short for the Commission to prepare for, and conduct, an in-person hearing. The Commission must nonetheless discharge its statutory responsibility to place the transferee under a period and conditions of supervised release before the transferee is released from prison.