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Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted
Loaded on Nov. 1, 2021
by Casey Bastian
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2021, page 36
Filed under:
Corrections Audits,
BOP Litigation Reports,
Clergy.
Location:
United States of America.
by Casey J. Bastian
The Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) in July 2021. The CSB is responsible for the BOP’s religious services nationwide. The program is intended to ensure that the constitutional right of prisoners to ...
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