Establish controls that mitigate the risk of inmates communicating with unknown and un-vetted parties and take steps, including the utilization of available technological features as found in TRULINCS, to reduce the risk of mass emails being received by high-risk inmates, including terrorist inmates.

[Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]

Ensure that the Senior Federal Law Enforcement Official cadre participates in National Level Exercises, when applicable, and ESF-13 Table Top Exercises.

Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.

Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.

Require that all suspicious orders reports be sent to DEA headquarters.

Complete the heating, ventilation, and cooling equipment upgrade subproject at Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn and ensure that the equipment is capable of maintaining temperatures at BOP targets. Further, ensure that upgraded hardware and Building Management System software allow facilities staff to accurately monitor building temperatures and heating, ventilation, and cooling equipment performance.

Take further action to diagnose the sources of temperature regulation issues and remedy them, if the upgraded Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn heating, ventilation, and cooling system cannot maintain building temperatures at BOP targets.

Update Cyber Division Policy Guide 0853PG to include a minimum requirement for information that should be included in a victim notification and in victim notification leads, to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of victim notifications.

Pursue a mutually agreeable solution with OHS for ensuring all victim notification data is entered into Cyber Guardian.

Develop and implement a "terminal leave" policy that provides that under no circumstances shall a proposed or final determination on a personnel action, whether based on deficient performance or misconduct, be delayed or not taken so that an employee can accumulate service time, whether by remaining on duty, while on administrative leave, while on leave without pay, or while on annual leave, in order to attain eligibility for benefits, including but not limited to retirement benefits.

Consider making explicit that, except in situations where the law requires or permits disclosure, an investigating agency cannot publicly announce its recommended charging decision prior to consulting with the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Attorney, or his or her designee, and cannot proceed without the approval of one of these officials.

Consider adopting a policy addressing the appropriateness of Department employees discussing the conduct of uncharged individuals in public statements.

Consider providing guidance to agents and prosecutors concerning the taking of overt investigative steps, indictments, public announcements, or other actions that could impact an election.

Take steps to improve the retention and monitoring of text messages Department-wide

Move immediately to require all CMS contractors to submit electronic claims.

Ensure those claims are properly analyzed and maintained by BOP's adjudication vendor.

Enforce existing contract language that requires the adjudication vendor to perform fraud analytics and report any indicators of fraud to the BOP.

Ensure that the adjudication vendor is able to reproduce on demand all necessary data elements used to adjudicate the claims (e.g., DRG, all procedure codes, and drug information). The universe of claims data should be available to BOP on a national scale in a format that allows for thorough analysis and oversight regardless of institution.

Track all inmates in single-cell confinement and monitor, as appropriate, the cumulative amount of time that inmates with mental illness spend in restrictive housing, including single-cell confinement.

Identify all forms of restrictive housing utilized throughout its institutions and ensure that all local policies are updated to reflect standards for all inmates in restrictive housing consistent with established nationwide policies.

Conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. Penitentiary Lewisburg's Special Management Unit that addresses the staffing, treatment, conditions of confinement, and performance metrics of the program.

Determine whether revisions to the post-shooting incident procedures should be made across the Department's law enforcement components to address the issue of shooting incidents outside the United States by a foreign LEO working on a joint law enforcement operation with a DOJ component. We also recommend that the Deputy Attorney General consider whether revisions to the components' post-shooting incident procedures should be made to ensure that the requirements are appropriate and consistent across the Department's law enforcement components.

Remedy $10,720,232 in unallowable costs awarded to the Nisqually Tribe to fund a correctional facility that was not funded or used in conformity with the statutory authority of the TJSIP, and that was inappropriately built with the intention of being a profit-generating facility.

Continue to pursue ways to make the business records process more efficient, particularly for applications related to cyber cases.

Promptly design and implement a plan that ensures that its law enforcement and detention components comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Establish a standardized list of courses, covering at least the Release Preparation Program's core categories, as designated by the BOP, to enhance the consistency of Release Preparation Program curricula across BOP institutions.

Explore the use of incentives and other methods to increase inmate participation and completion rates for the Institution Release Preparation Programs.

Improve the collection and analysis of utilization data for inmate medical care to better understand the services that inmates need and the impact it has on the BOP's medical spending.

Revise and update CPD 0465D, including prohibiting FBIRA Board Members from using personal financial instruments or accounts in connection with FBIRAs, clearly delineating permissible and impermissible uses of FBIRA resources, and requiring accountability for RA funds.