Guidance Documents

To provide standards for parenting programs in all institutions. Beginning in 1986, the United States Congressional appropriations conference reports for the Bureau included recommended parenting program funding levels. Initially, funding was provided at four female institutions and subsequently at all female institutions and at least one male institution in each BOP region. Conference reports also identified appropriate visiting room space, parent education, social service outreach, and community based service providers as desirable parenting program characteristics. This Program Statement expands such programs to all institutions.

This circular reminds proprietors of distilled spirits plants (DSPs), importers, wholesalers and other persons who purchase distilled spirits products from DSPs of their responsibility to comply with all applicable Federal and state laws with respect to such sales.

This ruling advises that 37/38 mm gas/flare guns possessed with cartridges containing wood pellets, rubber pellets or balls, or bean bags are classified as destructive devices for purposes of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, and the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53.

This ruling advises that a dealer who engages in the business of assembling firearms from component parts for purposes of sale or distribution in interstate or foreign commerce must be licensed as a manufacturer of firearms, pursuant to provisions of the Federal Firearms Act.  The manufacturer’s excise tax is imposed under the Internal Revenue Code of 1934 on the sale of firearms so produced. 

To prescribe the decision-making authority of Bureau personnel to order autopsies .An autopsy examination is ordinarily done in the interest of practicing a high standard of medicine. For example, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires all-approved hospitals to secure as high a percentage of autopsies as possible. Title 18, United States Code, section 4045, authorizes the Bureau of Prisons to order an autopsy in two specific situations as outlined in Sections 4.a. and 4.b. of this Program Statement.

This ruling advises that the Striker-12/Streetsweeper shotgun has a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter and is not generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes. Therefore, it is classified as a destructive device for purposes of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53.

These supplements are to be inserted, as appropriate, at the end of each chapter of the Title II Technical Assistance Manual.

Contains material to be added to the Americans with Disabilities Act Title III Technical Assistance Manual (Nov. 1993 edition.) These supplements are to be inserted, as appropriate, at the end of each chapter of the Manual.

This ruling advises that the USAS-12 shotgun has a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter and is not generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes. Therefore, it is classified as a destructive device for purposes of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53.

A 56-page manual that explains in lay terms what State and local governments must do to ensure that their services, programs, and activities are provided to the public in a nondiscriminatory manner.