In fact, under the Crime Control Act of 1990, federal prisons are required to teach English to prisoners who don't speak it.
All prisons are required to carry out a risk assessment before placing inmates in shared cells.
Civilian federal prisons are required to provide such treatment, if deemed medically necessary, for inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
At the moment, guidelines are determined by a hotch-potch of statute and precedent; the government simply has to build however many prisons are required as a result.
I explain that British prisons are required to log this data, and that the last prison I visited had a problem with prisoners melting screws into plastic pens, to use as stabbing weapons; he looks startled, says there isn't much violence here and he can't remember the last time there was a fight.
Prisons are required to provide medical care to those they house, but, as Black and Pink's 2015 survey noted, that care "does not need to be free".
Under the rules, convicted prisoners were required to wear prison uniform for the first two weeks of their sentence.
The 48-year-old retired Charlotte firefighter was sentenced to 33 months in prison, and is required to pay Wachovia more than $5.9 million, along with $1.1 million to the IRS.
The Secretary of Defense matters to the process because, under a law that Congress passed in one of its headlong efforts to keep the prison open, he is required to certify that any prisoner who is to be transferred is no risk of engaging in terrorism, or that the risk has been largely mitigated.
Mr. Hevesi could get up to four years in prison, but none is required.
At Candelaria, where the Jesuits had their provincial headquarters, only a few walls within sight of the Paraná River remain — and those are on the grounds of a prison, whose permission is required before the ruins can be visited.
