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Authority to Advance Funds to Cuban Detainees to Purchase Commissary Items

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The Director of the Bureau of Prisons has the authority under 18 U.S.C. § 4042 to direct that money from general prison operating funds be advanced to indigent Cuban detainees as a credit to their commissary accounts.

Updated July 9, 2014