Title 34 — NavyRelease 119-73not60

§60533 Bureau of Prisons Policy on Mentoring Contacts

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle VI— Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters › Chapter 605— RECIDIVISM PREVENTION › Subchapter II— ENHANCED DRUG TREATMENT AND MENTORING GRANT PROGRAMS › Part B— Mentoring › § 60533

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 90 days after April 9, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons must create and use a policy that lets people who mentor someone in prison keep mentoring that person after they are released. Mentoring can only be stopped if the Director shows it would be a serious safety risk to the released person, other inmates, the mentor, or anyone else. By September 30, 2009, the Director must send Congress a report on how the policy was put into effect and followed.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §60533

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(a)Not later than 90 days after April 9, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall, in order to promote stability and continued assistance to offenders after release from prison, adopt and implement a policy to ensure that any person who provides mentoring services to an incarcerated offender is permitted to continue such services after that offender is released from prison. That policy shall permit the continuation of mentoring services unless the Director demonstrates that such services would be a significant security risk to the released offender, incarcerated offenders, persons who provide such services, or any other person.

(b)Not later than September 30, 2009, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall submit to Congress a report on the extent to which the policy described in subsection (a) has been implemented and followed.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 17533 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 60533

Title 34 — Navy

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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