BOP PPRS Prison Match™ is here to help : A Physician's Perspective: Developing BOP Placement Request Options

BOP PPRS Prison Match™ implements appropriate prison-matched data points based on:

Medical and Mental Healthcare needs based on the BOP CARE LEVELS I-IV Structure
BOP Psychology Programs Embedded In FSA, specific ones with limited availability – security level dependant
Medication availability (~ 3500 different drugs), falls into 3 tiers;
1. On Formulary – Available
2. Non-Formulary –
- Requires a lengthy Preauthorization Process
  - therefore it is best to address these medications before the PSR/PSI and sentencing hearing, with ‘statements’ from their current treating physicians in order to avoid this waiting period. An interruption in the continuity of your client’s medical care is in no one’s interest.
- Bring a month’s supply (if you arrive on a holiday or weekend you may stand a greater chance of using them), at best they let you use them, and at worst they’re thrown out.

3. Lastly, they are just not available.

- How then would you determine what similar (equivalent) substitution would be appropriate?
Established Data Points for federal sentence length and BOP Placement are based on:
- USSC
  1. Sentencing Manual and
  2. Sentencing Table
- BOP Policies (P5100.08)
  1. BOP Public Safety Factors: Chapter 4: Pages 5-13 and
  2. BOP Management Variables: Chapter 5: Pages 12-13
Additionally, we include:
- Content where there is a specific interest in learning an occupation or trade or
- Getting a job in UNICOR (if available, listed on the last page of the UNICOR link).
The Washington DC Corrections and Information Council (CIC) independently evaluates BOP Facilities that,
- House DC residents, and therefore contains a broader range of prison-specific information
- This additional content benefits all defendants, both DC and Non-DC residents alike, as they face their sentencing hearing.
- While efforts are made to place a defendant close to home (within 500 driving miles of their legal residence), this as I understand is aspirational on the part of the BOP, although with the passage of the FSA it is a requirement.

Catholic University Law Review; “Dog Training Programs support inmate rehabilitation”.

Military: Is your client a Veteran?

If possible, connect your client with a facility that caters to veterans. FCI Morgantown started a Veterans to Veterans Service Dog Training Program in 2011.
The Participants that are federally imprisoned military veterans are housed in a special wing, which is responsible for training service guide dogs, for veterans who have mobility impairments and/or Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD).

Military prisons with service dog training programs

Once their training is complete, these dogs are placed with veterans in the community who have: