Reading Room Document

Bureau of Prisons practice of placing in community confinement certain offenders who have received selltences ofimprisonment

This opinion concludes that it is unlawful for the Bureau of Prisons to place certain federal offenders it deemed to be low-risk and nonviolent in a community corrections center, halfway house, or other forms of "community confinement," rather than in prison, since the Bureau of Prisons does not have the statutory authority to do so. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/936276/download.

December 13, 2002