[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 28, Volume 2]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 28CFR540.17]



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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

 

           CHAPTER V--BUREAU OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

PART 540_CONTACT WITH PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY--Table of Contents

 

                        Subpart B_Correspondence

 

Sec. 540.17  Correspondence between confined inmates.



    An inmate may be permitted to correspond with an inmate confined in 

any other penal or correctional institution if the other inmate is 

either a member of the immediate family, or is a party or witness in a 

legal action in which both inmates are involved. Such correspondence may 

be approved in other exceptional circumstances, with particular regard 

to the security level of the institution, the nature of the relationship 

between the two inmates, and whether the inmate has other regular 

correspondence. The following additional limitations apply:

    (a) Such correspondence at institutions of all security levels may 

always be inspected and read by staff at the sending and receiving 

institutions (it may not be sealed by the inmate); and

    (b)(1) The appropriate unit manager at each institution must approve 

of the correspondence if both inmates are housed in Federal institutions 

and both inmates are members of the same immediate family or are a party 

or witness in a legal action in which both inmates are involved.

    (2) The Wardens of both institutions must approve of the 

correspondence if one of the inmates is housed at a non-Federal 

institution or if approval is being granted on the basis of exceptional 

circumstances.



[50 FR 40109, Oct. 1, 1985, as amended at 61 FR 65204, Dec. 18, 1995]