Salaries and Expenses

U.S. Department of Justice Federal Prison System FY 2013 PERFORMANCE BUDGET Congressional Submission Salaries and Expenses Table of Contents Page No. I. Overview............................................................................................................................1 II. Summary of Program Changes .....................................................................................16 III. Appropriations Language and Analysis of Appropriations Language ....................17 IV. Decision Unit Justification A. Inmate Care and Programs ...........................................................................................18 1. Program Description 2. Performance Tables 3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes B. Institution Security and Administration .......................................................................41 1. Program Description 2. Performance Tables 3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes C. Contract Confinement ..................................................................................................52 1. Program Description 2. Performance Tables 3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes D. Management and Administration .................................................................................59 1. Program Description 2. Performance Tables 3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes V. Program Increases by Item A. USP Yazoo City, MS ...............................................................................................75 B. FCI Hazelton, WV....................................................................................................75 C. Contract Bed Increase ..............................................................................................78 VI. Program Offsets by Item A. Good Conduct Time Credit Proposed Legislation ..............................................80 i B. Expand Compassionate Release ..........................................................................81 C. IT Savings ............................................................................................................82 D. Realign BOP Regional Office and Administrative Operations ...........................83 VII. Exhibits A. Organizational Chart B. Summary of Requirements C. FY 2013 Program Increases/Offsets by Decision Unit D. Resources by DOJ Strategic Goal and Strategic Objective E. Justification for Base Adjustments F. Crosswalk of 2011 Availability G. Crosswalk of 2012 Availability H. Summary of Reimbursable Resources I. Detail of Permanent Positions by Category J. Financial Analysis of Program Changes K. Summary of Requirements by Grade L. Summary of Requirements by Object Class M. Status of Congressionally Requested Studies, Reports, and Evaluations N. Summary by Appropriation O. Summary of Change P. Physicians’ Comparability Allowance (PCA) Worksheet ii I. Overview for the Bureau of Prisons, Salaries and Expenses (S&E) Appropriation 1. Introduction The President’s FY 2013 request for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) S&E Appropriation totals $6,820,217,000, with 37,839 FTEs, and 41,904 positions (20,162 Correctional Officers) to support Department of Justice (DOJ) Strategic Goal 3: Ensure and Support the Fair, Impartial, Efficient, and Transparent Administration of Justice at the Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and International Levels. Electronic copies of the DOJ’s Congressional Budget Justification and Capital Asset Plan and Business Case exhibits can be viewed or downloaded from the Internet using the Internet address: http://www.justice.gov/02organizations/bpp.htm. The BOP, an agency of the DOJ, is responsible for the custody and care of over 217,000 federal inmates. The BOP’s highest priorities continue to be: Ensuring the safety of federal inmates, staff, and surrounding communities; Reducing inmate crowding to help prevent violence in prison by adding bed space; and Maximizing the use of inmate reentry programs such as education and drug treatment in order to reduce recidivism, and seek long term strategies to control population growth. The BOP operates 117 prisons with administrative oversight and support provided by the central office and regional offices. As the inmate population is projected to continue to increase for the foreseeable future, the BOP continues to require increased resources to provide for safe inmate incarceration and care, and the safety of BOP staff and surrounding communities, which is why the requested operating funds are vital. Nevertheless, the BOP has made great strides in past years in streamlining and consolidating functions and operating as efficiently as possible. The BOP has been “doing more with less” for many years by co-locating institutions; delayering management positions; closing four stand-alone minimum security prisons; and consolidating procurement, sentence computation, inmate designation, human resources and other functions. At the same time the agency has managed an ever growing number of inmates with relatively fewer staff, as compared to the size of the inmate population. In total, the BOP has streamlined operations, improved program efficiencies, and reduced costs to function very economically even as the mandatory workload increases every year. For FY 2013, a net increase of $23.4 million in program changes is proposed. The request includes $81.4 million in program enhancements to begin the activation process for two institutions, the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Yazoo City, Mississippi and the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at Hazelton, West Virginia, and to acquire 1,000 private contract beds. Offsets of $58 million are included for: a proposed legislative initiative which, if passed, would allow additional Good Conduct Time credit for inmates; expanding the compassionate release program; information technology savings; and additional realignment of regional and administrative operations. 1 The following chart illustrates the actual and projected inmate population increases based on the current trends: Projected Population, Capacity, and Crowding 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 (Actual) (Actual) (Actual) BOP Facilities Starting Capacity 122,366 125,778 126,713 127,795 128,433 Additional Approved/Planned 3,412 935 1,082 638 3,002 Subtotal Capacity 125,778 126,713 127,795 128,433 131,435 Population Projection 172,423 173,289 177,934 182,624 188,051 Percent Overcrowded 37% 37% 39% 42% 43% Contract 36,336 36,938 39,834 40,144 41,217 Percent Contract 17.4% 17.6% 18.3% 18.0% 18.0% Total Federal Prison Population 208,759 210,227 217,768 222,768 229,268 Note: The population projections are based on data and information from a variety of sources including the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, other DOJ components, and the BOP’s own information system (SENTRY). The additional capacity projections shown above rely on enactment of funding for contract beds and prison activations. Also, these projections do not incorporate the impacts of proposed legislation to increase potential Good Conduct Time awards for sentenced inmates. The requested S&E increases and offsets are shown in the following table. Strategic Item Dollars Pos. FTE Goal ($000) 3.3 Begin Activation: USP Yazoo City, MS (1,216 new 28,421 416 104 beds) 3.3 Begin Activation: FCI Hazelton, WV (1,280 new beds) 27,084 389 97 3.3 Private Contract Bed Increase (1,000 beds) 25,865 4 2 3.3 Offset: Good Conduct Time Legislative Proposal (41,000) 0 0 3.3 Offset: Expand Compassionate Release (3,154) 0 0 3.3 Offset: IT Savings (2,831) 0 0 3.3 Offset: Realign Regional Office and Administrative (11,001) (60) (60) Operations TOTAL $23,384 749 143 The S&E base budget incorporates increases in costs for food, medical, utilities, and existing contract beds. The Congress, in FY 2009, directed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report on BOP’s methods for cost estimation, including the pricing of utilities and inmate medical care costs. The GAO released report GAO-10-94 in November 2009 and concluded that BOP’s methods for cost estimation largely reflect best practices as outlined in GAO’s Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide. GAO stated that “BOP followed a well-defined process for developing mostly comprehensive, well documented, accurate, and credible cost estimates”. The full GAO report is available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1094.pdf. 2 In FY 2011, the inmate population increased by 7,541 net new inmates to a total population of 217,768 and system-wide crowding was at 39 percent over rated capacity, with 55 percent and 51 percent at high and medium security institutions respectively. Even with changes to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which were made applicable retroactively, providing some crack cocaine offenders sentence reductions, the BOP still expects an additional increase of 11,500 inmates by the end of FY 2013. Overcrowding and inmate to staff ratios will increase given incarceration trends. At the end of FY 2011, 20,244 (97 percent) high security inmates were double bunked, and 21,570 (35 percent) of medium security inmates and 35,796 (81 percent) of low security inmates were triple bunked, or housed in space not designed for inmate housing, such as television rooms, open

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