Federal Prison Systems (BOP)
FY 2011 Budget Request At A Glance
FY 2010 Enacted:

$6,185.4 million (40,563 positions; 19,408 correctional officers)

Current Services Adjustments:

$196.2 million (2.1% above FY 2010 Enacted)

Program Changes:

$421.9 million

FY 2011 Budget Request:

$6,803.5 million (41,882 positions; 20,060 correctional officers)

Change from FY 2010 Enacted:

$618.1 million (9.9%) (+1,319 positions; +652 correctional
officers)

Mission:

Organization:

The mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is
to protect society by confining offenders in the
controlled environments of prisons and communitybased facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient,
appropriately secure, and provide work and other selfimprovement opportunities to assist offenders in
becoming law-abiding citizens.

The BOP is managed from a Central Office in
Washington, DC, where the Director, Assistant
Directors, and Assistant Director/General Counsel
guide the agency’s headquarters functions, and six
regional offices, each of which is led by a Regional
Director. Currently there are 115 prisons operating
within the six regions of the country.

Resources:

Personnel:

The budget request for FY 2011 totals $6,803.5
million, which includes $6,533.8 million for Salaries
and Expenses and $269.7 million for Buildings and
Facilities. This represents a 9.9 percent increase over
FY 2010 Enacted.

BOP’s direct authorized positions for FY 2011 total
41,882, including 20,060 correctional officers. Of the
total authorized positions, all are domestically located.
The FY 2011 request for BOP includes an increase of
1,319 positions, including 652 correctional officers,
over the FY 2010 level of 40,563 direct authorized
positions.

Personnel (FY 2001 - 2011)

Funding (FY 2001 - 2011)
$13,121

$ in millions

42,000
34,500
27,000

$0

19,500

2001

2009*

2010

2011

$834

$576

$99

$270

12,000

Buildings &
Facilities
Salaries &
Expenses

$3,470 $5,596 $6,086 $6,534

* Excludes supplemental funding

A ut ho rize d
P o s it io ns

2001

2009

2 0 10

2 0 11

3 5 ,3 4 1

3 9 ,6 9 2

4 0 ,5 6 3

4 1,8 8 2

C o rre c t io na l [ 16 ,18 4 ] [ 19 ,0 5 8 ] [ 19 ,4 0 8 ] [ 2 0 ,0 6 0 ]
O f f ic e rs

* Includes reimbursable correctional officers.

FY 2011 Strategy:
The BOP has two appropriated accounts, with a total of
six decision units tying to the DOJ Strategic Goals for
FY 2011. The four decision units in the Salaries and
Expenses (S&E) account are for inmate care and
programs, institution security and administration,
contract confinement, and management and
administration.
Within these four areas the BOP
provides for safe, secure, and humane confinement of
sentenced inmates as well as detained persons
awaiting trial and/or sentencing. In addition, the BOP
provides services and programs to facilitate inmates’
successful reintegration into society, consistent with
community expectations and standards. The other two
decision units are in the Buildings and Facilities (B&F)
account and are for new prison construction, expansion,
and acquisition, and for the modernization and repair of
existing facilities. These are required to add additional
bed space for the growing inmate population and to
maintain existing facilities in an adequate state of repair.
BOP anticipates finalizing construction of FCI Berlin,
NH, a medium security federal correctional institution,
and begin the activation process to add 1,280 more
beds to rated capacity. In addition, the BOP plans to
purchase and renovate a state prison in Thomson, IL.
The facility will be activated as a U.S. Penitentiary.
USP Thomson, IL will add approximately 1,600
additional high security beds. Within the Salaries and
Expenses account, BOP is working to expand reentry
programs in support of the Second Chance Act.
The biggest challenge facing the BOP is managing the
ever increasing federal inmate population and providing
for their care and safety, while maintaining appropriately
safe and secure prisons required to ensure the safety of
BOP staff and surrounding communities.
FY 2011 Program Changes:

Increase Current Staffing Levels: $59.1 million to fill
1,200 vacant correctional worker positions to safely
manage the growing inmate population at BOP
institutions. Increasing the number of staff in federal
prisons will improve the inmate to staff ratio, which will
result in better supervision, safety, and programming
of the inmates. The Department continues its ongoing
commitment to increase prison institution staffing
levels; the FY 2011 request supports correctional
worker staffing at 93 percent of the authorized
baseline level. In FY 2009, BOP was able to fund and
staff 89 percent of authorized correctional worker
positions and expects to fund 90 percent of authorized
correctional worker positions in FY 2010. FY 2011
current services for all of BOP staffing funded by the
Salaries and Expenses appropriation are $3.8 billion.

Capacity Expansion and New Prison Activations:
$170.0 million and 6 positions to purchase and
renovate the Thomson Correctional Center, an Illinois
state prison to expand high security prison capacity.
The Thomson facility will be activated as a U.S.
Penitentiary. The Department believes that renovating
and re-purposing existing structures is a cost-efficient
and environmentally responsible method of expanding
federal prison system capacity. $95.4 million and 1,274
positions (652 correctional officers) to begin the
process of equipping and staffing FCI Berlin, NH ($28.5
million) and USP Thomson, IL ($66.9 million). The new
prison activation enhancement also funds constructive
program opportunities for federal offenders, promoting
an atmosphere conducive to positive change during
incarceration to facilitate successful reentry and
reintegration into society upon release. There are no
current services for these initiatives.
Reentry Programs and Housing: $25.9 million and
42 positions to support reentry programs in BOP
facilities and extend the average length of stay for
inmates housed in residential reentry centers. This
initiative supports BOP’s federal prisoner reentry
strategy and other associated requirements instituted
by the Second Chance Act of 2007. FY 2011 current
services for BOP reentry related programs are
$564.4 million.
Prison Operations and Inmate Care: $78.1 million to
support general prison operations and inmate care,
including increases in food costs ($15.9 million),
contract bed wage and price costs ($29.8 million), as
well as increases associated with the FY 2011
projected inmate population growth in BOP facilities
($32.4 million). FY 2011 current services for the Inmate
Care decision unit is $2.3 billion.
National Institute of Corrections: An offset of $5.0
million for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC).
NIC will retain its core function to provide training,
technical assistance, information services, and policy/
program development assistance to federal, state, and
local corrections agencies.
Travel and Management Efficiencies: An offset of
$1.5 million for travel expenditures. In FY 2011, DOJ is
focusing on travel as an area in which cost savings
and increased efficiencies can be achieved, while
minimizing the risk to health, welfare and safety of
agency personnel.

Financial Snapshot 2009
Clean Opinion on Financial Statements

Yes

Timely Financial Reporting

Yes

Material Weaknesses

None