A bill to regulate monitoring of electronic communications between an incarcerated person in a Bureau of Prisons facility and that person's attorney or other legal representative, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · December 18, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
This bill requires the federal Bureau of Prisons to create a system that protects communications between incarcerated people and their attorneys from government monitoring within two years of enactment. The legislation affects all individuals held in Bureau of Prisons facilities or by the U.S. Marshals Service who are charged with or convicted of federal crimes. Attorney-client privilege protections would apply to these electronic communications, including emails sent through the prison's inmate computer system, though the government can still monitor non-privileged communications and can access privileged ones only with a court warrant approved by a U.S. attorney. Until the new system is operational, the Attorney General must notify all incarcerated people that their privileged communications may be monitored. The bill establishes strict procedures for any government access to privileged communications, including requirements that federal prosecutors review such materials before law enforcement sees them and be barred from participating in cases involving those communications.
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