BOP Program Statement 5264.09 § 4

The Warden shall establish procedures that enable monitoring of telephone conversations on any

telephone located within the institution, said monitoring to be done to preserve the security and

orderly management of the institution and to protect the public. The Warden must provide notice

to the inmate of the potential for monitoring. Staff may not monitor an inmate's properly placed

call to an attorney. The Warden shall notify an inmate of the proper procedures to have an

unmonitored telephone conversation with an attorney.

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As part of the admission and orientation process, inmates will be advised of the procedures for

placing monitored and unmonitored telephone calls.

The notification to inmates will be documented on the BP-A0408, Acknowledgment of Inmate,

Part 3 & 4 form and then filed in the Inmate Central File.

In addition, a notice will be placed, in both Spanish and English, at all monitored telephone

locations within the institution advising the user all conversations from that telephone are subject

to monitoring and using the telephone constitutes consent to this monitoring. A notice will advise

inmates to contact their assigned Unit Management to request an unmonitored attorney telephone

call. Trust Fund staff must ensure the notice is placed at all monitored telephone locations within

the institution.

Requests for information (e.g., subpoenas) on monitored calls should be processed in accordance

with the Program Statement Recorded Inmate Telephone Conversations, Requests for

Production. The Bureau does not allow inmates to send or receive facsimile communications.