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BOP Program Statement 3939.08 Change Notice 1
Change Notice 1
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Prisons
CHANGE NOTICE
OPI: RSD/CSB
NUMBER: 3939.08, CN-1
DATE: February 14, 2023
Chaplains’ Employment, Responsibilities, and
Endorsements
/s/
Approved: Colette S. Peters
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
This Change Notice (CN) implements the following changes to Program Statement 3939.08,
Chaplains’ Employment, Responsibilities, and Endorsements, dated October 24, 2022.
The deleted text is struck through.
2. HIRING CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHAPLAINS
Chaplains are Excepted Service governmental employees. Chaplains are employed to ensure the
free exercise of religion for inmates, lead worship and religious studies out of their own faith
tradition, facilitate religious accommodations across faith lines, offer pastoral care, and provide
faith-based reentry programming.
a. Hiring Flexibilities. The agency will utilize the full scope of chaplaincy hiring flexibilities to
best meet diverse religious hiring needs and hard-to-fill Chaplaincy needs.
b. Chaplaincy Application and Selection: The Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) will
work with the Human Resources Management Division (HRMD) on posting of
Chaplaincy vacancy announcements and processing applicants following Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) Excepted Service guidelines and branch procedures.
The Chaplaincy Administrator and/or their designee will review each institutional (Standard
Form 52) Request for Personnel Action before an agency Chaplaincy announcement is
posted and make recommendations on how the announcement should be issued to best meet
specific institutional and religious needs. This includes status employees in competitive
positions seeking appointments as Chaplains. The selecting official for Chaplaincy positions
will be the Assistant Director of the Reentry Services Division.
History
Change Notice 1 dated 2023-02-14
Provenance
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- bop.gov
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- 2026-09-20
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- bop-ps-2026-09-20
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