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Agency Budget Summary
Department of Justice
Bureau of Prisons
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- The drug control percentages are based on the number of inmates currently incarcerated or projected to be incarcerated for drug convictions.
III. Program Summary
- The mission of BOP is to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and which provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens.
- All drug-related resources support Goal 2, "Increase the safety of America's citizens bysubstantially reducing drug-related crime and violence" of the Strategy.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The FY 1999 drug-related resources include $2.1 billion and 18,970 direct FTEs. The following provides a breakdown of drug activities funded in FY 1999.
Corrections Activities:
- Currently, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) provides custodial care for a total of 124,660 inmates. Of that number, 110,061 federal inmates are in BOP facilities. BOP contracts with state, local, and private correctional institutions to house 5,606 federal inmates. The BOP also houses 5,488 inmates in contract Community Correction Centers, houses 2,247 in government owned and privately managed prisons, and 1,258 inmates are in home confinement.
- BOP has four budget accounts: Salaries and Expenses (S&E) which includes the Violent Crime Reduction Programs, Buildings and Facilities (B&F), the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI), and the Commissary Trust Revolving Fund. Only the first two are appropriated.
- S&E covers the necessary expenditures for the administration, operation, and maintenance of federal penal and correctional institutions and contract care.
- B&F includes new construction and modernization and repair costs.
- FPI is a government-owned corporation which provides goods and services to other federal agencies through a training employment program for federal offenders.
- The Commissary Trust Fund operates in the prisons for inmates to purchase special (personal) items and services beyond the necessities supplied by the facilities. Commissary operations do not require appropriated funds since all costs, including staff salaries, are financed from profits acquired by sales to inmates.
Treatment Activities:
- In response to the rapid growth in the federal inmate population of drug abuse histories, BOP has developed a comprehensive drug abuse treatment strategy consisting of four components: drug abuse education, non-residential drug abuse counseling services, residential drug abuse program, and community transitional drug abuse treatment. It is estimated that 30.5 percent of the sentenced inmate population are "drug dependent" and require some type of drug abuse treatment program. BOP's four drug treatment programs are summarized below:
- Residential Drug Abuse Program: This is a voluntary program with a length of stay ofsix to twelve months (varies by facility/program). It provides unit-based living with extensive assessment, treatment planning, and individual and group counseling.
- Drug Abuse Education: This program provides the inmate with specific instruction on the risks involved in drug use and abuse; presents strategies toward living a drug-free lifestyle, while introducing the inmate to the concepts of drug treatment; and motivates the inmate to volunteer for participation in the Bureau's residential drug abuse treatment program.
- Non-residential Drug Abuse Counseling Services: This program offers the flexibility for those who do not meet the requirements for the residential drug abuse treatment program. This program is also available for aftercare treatment, as needed once an inmate has completed the residential treatment program.
- Community Transition Programs: These programs are available to inmates who have completed the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment program and are released to the community under Bureau custody. As part of their community program plan, and to assist in the adjustment back into society, these inmates continue treatment programming with community based treatment providers.
2000 Request
- The FY 2000 drug-related request includes resources of $2.4 billion and 19,956 direct FTEs. This represents an increase of $296.1 million and 986 FTEs over FY 1999 levels. Program initiatives include:
- $1.1 million and 25 positions to add five residential drug abuse programs to meet the 100 percent requirement of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The requested expansion will increase BOP's drug abuse treatment program capability by 2,000 beds. This will enable the BOP to treat more than 8,000 inmates in its residential drug abuse treatment programs by the end of FY 2000.
- $1 million and 6 positions to provide six months community transitional drug abuse treatment services to 100 percent of the residential/unit based drug treatment graduates. This initiative will increase the number of inmates participating in community-based transitional services by approximately 600 cases by FY 2000.
- $273 million is included for new prison construction. This includes additional capacity for the District of Columbia Felons; construction of one new penitentiary and preliminary funding for three federal correctional institutions for sentenced federal inmates; and preliminary funding for three facilities to house INS non-returnable criminal aliens.
V. Program Accomplishments
- In February of 1998, the BOP's Office of Research and Evaluation released its interim reportdescribing the results of the outcome evaluation for the Bureau's residential drug abuse treatment program. The report indicates that inmates who completed the residential drug abuse treatment program were 73 percent less likely to be re-arrested and 44 percent less likely to relapse into drug use in the first six months after release than similar inmates who did not receive this treatment.
- In FY 1998, 12,002 inmates participated in drug abuse education programs; 5,038 inmates participated in non-residential drug abuse treatment programs; 10,006 inmates participated in residential drug abuse treatment programs; and 6,951 inmates participated in community based drug abuse treatment programs.
- Since 1990, 98,931 inmates participated in drug abuse education; 19,408 inmates participated in non-residential drug abuse treatment; 38,402 inmates participated in residential drug abuse treatment programs; and 20,928 inmates participated in community based drug abuse treatment programs.
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