USDOJ/OIG Special Report

CRIMINAL CALLS: A REVIEW OF THE
BUREAU OF PRISONS MANAGEMENT OF
INMATE TELEPHONE PRIVILEGES
(August, 1999)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
- Overview
- The OIG Review
- Organization of Report
CHAPTER TWO: FEDERAL INMATE ACCESS TO
TELEPHONES
- Background on the BOP
- Background on Inmate
Telephone Use in the BOP
- The BOP Philosophy
on Inmate Use of Telephones
- History of Inmate Access to
Telephones
- Inmate Telephone Abuse and the
BOP 's Early Responses
- The Development of the
Inmate Telephone System
- Features and Installation
of the System
- Washington v. Reno
- Current Telephone Systems in
BOP Facilities
- ITS II
- Inmate Telephone Use in State
Prisons
CHAPTER THREE: LEGAL AND REGULATORY
BACKGROUND
- BOP Policy and Practice
- Prohibited Acts
- SIS Role
CHAPTER FOUR: OIG REVIEW OF INMATE
TELEPHONE ABUSE
- Determining the Scope of
Inmate Telephone Abuse
- OIG Data Collection
- OIG Field Visits and Survey of
ITS Institutions
- Current Calling Patterns
- Current BOP Monitoring Efforts
- The SIS Office
- Disciplinary Sanctions for
Telephone Abuse
- FBI Information
- Williamsport, Pennsylvania
FBI Office
- Survey of FBI Field Offices
- DEA Information
- Surveys of U.S. Attorneys
Offices
- 1995 USAO Survey
- OIG 1998 Survey of USAOs
CHAPTER FIVE: OIG CASE STUDIES OF
INMATE TELEPHONE ABUSE
- Rayful Edmond III and
Related Cases
- Rayful Edmond III
- FBI Opens Investigation
of Edmond
- The OIG Interview of Edmond
- Jose Naranjo
- Freddy Aguilera and Nelson
Garcia
- OIG Conclusions About Case
Studies of Edmond, Naranjo, Aguilera, and Garcia
- Anthony Jones
- Background
- Facts of Jones case
- OIGs Conclusions
regarding BOPs handling of Joness case
- Oreste Abbamonte
- OIG Review of Selected Inmate
Files
CHAPTER SIX: RECENT BOP CORRECTIVE
EFFORTS
- 1996 BOP Working Group
- The Director's Letter to Wardens
and Executive Staff
- Attorney General's Working
Group
- Wardens' Working Group
- Working Group
Recommendations
- Review by Federal Programs
Branch Attorneys
- Review by BOP Office of General
Counsel
- Decision on Working
Groups Recommendations
- BOPs National Strategic
Planning Objective 5.11
- Congressional Change in Trust
Fund Language
CHAPTER SEVEN: ANALYSIS
- Cap on Inmate Calls
- BOPs Failure to Devote
Sufficient Resources to the Problem
- Training
- Insufficient Staffing
- Restriction of Telephone
Privileges as a Matter of Classification
- Increase in Disciplinary
Sanctions for Inmate Telephone Abuse
- Use of Administrative
Punishments
- Other Possible Methods of
Restricting Privileges
- BOP Penological Interests in
Providing Telephone Access
- BOPs Misplaced Reliance
on New Technology
- Small Improvements with
ITS II
- Failure to Coordinate within
BOP on the Development and Implementation of ITS II
- New Telephone Technology
- Speaker Identification
- Speech Recognition
CHAPTER EIGHT: RECOMMENDATIONS
- Monitoring of
Inmate Telephone Calls
- Discipline
- Proactive Restrictions of
Privileges
- Role of SIS Officer
CHAPTER NINE: CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Washington v. Reno
Appendix 2: ITS II Features
Appendix 3: Information
from the FBI: Crimes by Inmates Using Prison Telephones
Appendix 4: Information
from the DEA: Crimes by Inmates Using Prison Telephones
Appendix 5: Legal Analysis:
Restrictions on Correspondence as a Matter of Classification
TABLES
Table 1: Inmate Telephone Activity and
BOP Practices.
Table 2: Federal Prosecutions of Cases
Involving Inmates Using the Telephone to Facilitate a Crime, Survey by D.C. USAO, 1995.
Table 3: Federal Prosecutions of Cases
Involving Inmates Using the Telephone to Facilitate a Crime, Survey by DOJ OIG, 1998.
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