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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure adequate separation of duties between individuals responsible for authorization, custody of assets, record keeping, and reconciliation.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure adequate physical control of credit cards and proper credit card expense allocation.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure controls over tracking and safeguarding of VOCA-funded gift cards (to include either a log or tracking in the client management system).
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure adequate controls over the timing of reimbursement requests.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure matching costs contributions are allowable in-kind sources and come from non-federal sources.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure proper training of Finance and Administration Department personnel.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Enhance existing performance assessment procedures and manuals to ensure that it requires subrecipients to implement corrective actions that target the root cause of issues.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA separately tracks VOCA grant funds received, obligated, and expended as required by the DOJ Grants Financial Guide.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    $2,925
    Remedy $2,925 in unallowable costs for witness transportation services.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA implements controls to ensure that VOCA funding is used only for victims of crime.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Determine: (a) whether its use of FSA funds to pay for telephone minutes for inmates not participating in or on a waitlist for FSA programs was consistent with the purpose for which the FSA funds were appropriated and (b) whether its transfer of time-limited funds to the Trust Fund in excess of its cost for providing telephone minutes for inmates inappropriately extended the period of availability of these funds. Depending on the outcome of these determinations, make appropriate notifications to the Office of Management and Budget and take remedial action as necessary.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Actively monitor Department of Labor grantees' use of FSA-derived grant funds, to include ensuring that grant-funded instruction is not duplicative of BOP offerings and is supporting FSA implementation.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Determine how the Department of Labor has used and plans to use the $15 million in FSA funds transferred to it for grant program administrative costs, including funds that were allocated to pay for an evaluation of the grant program, and ensure that the use of these funds supports FSA implementation.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Issue clear guidance defining how FSA funds can be used.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that similar purchases are categorized consistently in the BOP's financial management system so the BOP can rely on system data to oversee its use of FSA funds.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Collect accurate programming data that will allow the BOP to determine the frequency with which FSA programs are offered at each of its institutions.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Update the FSA Approved Programs Guide, or develop complementary reporting, to more accurately convey the institutions where each FSA program is actually available.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    (a) Update its policies and training (including the LEOSA memorandum, the Standards of EmployeeConduct, and related training materials) to clarify the appropriate and prohibited uses of employeecredentials ; and (b) Either (1) ensure that only employees who are authorized by the BOP to carry afirearm receive credentials with law enforcement markings, or (2) for BOP employees who are noteligible or authorized by the BOP to carry a firearm, add to their credential that limitation to theirLEO status by, for example, including an endorsement on the credential that the holder is notauthorized by BOP to carry a firearm.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    (a) Update its Badge Accountability Memorandum to clarify that with respect to their ability to carrya firearm, staff are prohibited from using their badges other than to establish a staff member'sauthorization to carry a firearm while on duty and/or carrying out responsibilities that are part ofthe employee's normal BOP duties; (b) Update its LEOSA memorandum to clarify that staff areprohibited from using the BOP-issued badges to demonstrate eligibility to carry a concealed firearm;and (c) Determine whether it is necessary to issue badges to BOP employees who are not authorizedto carry firearms.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Help CIAC customize a reliable methodology within the system to identify or prorate victim service metrics reported in the quarterly performance reports.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Verify that CIAC establishes and implements internal controls to help ensure subaward transactions are accurately, completely, and timely tracked in its accounting system.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that CIAC establishes controls to allocate costs to its subawards based on a consistent, equitable, and documented methodology.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    $1,275
    Remedy the $1,275 in unsupported gift card expenses.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    $467,712
    Remedy the $467,712 in unsupported shared administrative and other direct costs that do not have a documented cost allocation methodology.
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    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that CIAC documents the basis for determining the accountant's hourly rate was reasonable and executes a signed agreement to define the work to be performed by the accountant, as well as establishes an agreement that defines the work to be performed by the accountant.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that USP Canaan makes improvements in its processes involving the application of inmate restraints, through actions including: (a) retraining USP Canaan employees as soon as possible on the safe application of restraints, as well as the requirements for both conducting and documenting medical checks of restrained inmates, and (b) implementing enhanced supervisory review to monitor and ensure compliance with BOP restraint application policies and document requirements.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Assess USP Canaan's use of restraints, including: the frequency of their use, the method by which they have been applied, and the duration of their use. Such an assessment should be performed by a medical doctor and other correctional experts not assigned to USP Canaan. The BOP should use the results of this assessment to inform the training and supervision provided to USP Canaan employees and determine whether any other operational changes are necessary.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that USP Canaan Executive Leadership and relevant Central Office Correctional Programs Division officials discuss the scope of USP Canaan's Special Housing Unit capacity issues and identify inmate management and space utilization techniques that can mitigate USP Canaan's need to restrict inmate movement.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Implement controls to ensure that USP Canaan employees consistently follow BOP policy on securing potentially dangerous medical equipment and supplies.
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that USP Canaan's procedures and processes for single-cell Special Housing Unit inmate placements align with BOP policy, including all required coordination before, during, and after placement.