Reading Room Document
Fiduciary Obligations Regarding Bureau of Prisons Commissary Fund
31 U.S.C. § 1321 and its accompanying Department of Justice regulations do not impose a fiduciary obligation on the Bureau of Prisons to expend Commissary Fund moneys only in accordance with the terms of the Commissary Fund trust. 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/20216/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit