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Authority to Advance Funds to Cuban Detainees to Purchase Commissary Items
The Director of the Bureau of Prisons has the authority under 18 U.S.C. § 4042 to direct that money from general prison operating funds be advanced to indigent Cuban detainees as a credit to their commissary accounts. 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 www.justice.gov/file/24051/download.
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