Federal bureau of prisons (bop) - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a Department of Justice federal law enforcement agency charged with managing incarcerated individuals. The BOP is led by a Director, who in term serves under the direction of the U.S. Attorney General. The BOP summarizes their activities as �protecting public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and provide reentry programming to ensure their successful return to the community.��

Title 18, Section 4042 of the U.S. Code establishes the BOP�s duties, which include: managing and regulating Federal penal and correctional institutions; providing suitable quarters for all inmates; providing for the protection, instruction, and discipline of all inmates; providing technical assistance to State, tribal, and local governments in the improvement of their correctional systems; establishing prerelease planning procedures; and establishing reentry planning procedures.�

The BOP has custody over approximately 150,000 inmates, about 85% of whom are confined in BOP-operated facilities.�