Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Handling of the Transfer of Inmate James "Whitey" Bulger

Reassess its policies regarding assessing and ensuring the security of inmates at the time of designation, redesignation, and transfer and consider (a) adding specific criteria for BOP officials within DSCC, OMDT, and Central Office to consider before approving the designation and redesignation of Broad Publicity and other CIM inmates; (b) whether changes should be made to the criteria for considering an inmate to be a member, leader, associate, former member, or drop-out of Organized Crime; (c) requiring that additional categories of inmates, such as inmates of a certain level of public notoriety, be referred to Senior Intelligence Designators or the Central Office Intelligence Office, prior to transfer; and (d) adding steps for receiving institutions to take to plan for the arrival of inmates of a certain level of public notoriety.

Ensure that its written procedures and practices regarding medical transfer codes and paperwork are consistent.

Modify its policies to require reviews of inmate medical care levels either upon specified changes in inmates' medical care or at regular intervals, such as annually, and reassess its policies to incorporate enhanced communication among clinical providers involved in inmate medical care level decisions.

Modify the Medical Care Level Guidelines to address how an inmate's noncompliance with medical treatment should impact the inmate's medical care level classification, regardless of the patient's reason for noncompliance.

Reassess and clarify the BOP's policies regarding maintaining the confidentiality of information regarding designations, redesignations, and transfers of inmates, and provide training to BOP employees on these policies.