Institution inmate case files.

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Institution inmate case files.

Institutional inmate case files consisting of documentation relating to the receipt, classification, detention, and release of persons convicted of violating federal laws and held in federal penal and correctional institutions.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8343406

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United States. Bureau of Prisons

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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was created by the Act of May 14, 1930 (ch.274,- 46 Stat. 325) and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The mission of the Bureau of Prisons was to maintain secure, safe, and humane correctional institutions for individuals placed in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General; to develop and operate correctional programs that seek a balanced application of the concepts of punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation; and provide, primarily through t...