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Text of Recommendation
The BOP should revise its policies, procedures, or training to ensure that BOP employees handling Reduction In Sentence requests based on medical circumstances consider not only whether an inmate has a definitive diagnosis but also whether the BOP has been meeting the inmate's medical needs, has the ability to meet the inmate's medical needs going forward, and has scheduled the medical appointmentsnecessary to diagnose the inmate's medical condition.
Recommendation Number
5
Date Issued
Status
Resolved
Component
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Report
Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Conditions of Confinement and Medical Treatment of Frederick Mervin Bardell and Related Representations to the Court, Upon Referral by Senior U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr.