---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 544.101"
title: "28"
number: "544.101"
heading: "Procedures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/544.101"
---

# §544.101. Procedures.

- (a) The Warden shall assign a staff member (ordinarily the Supervisor of Education) responsibility for the inmate library.
- (b) The inmate library shall offer an inmate a variety of reading materials, including, but not limited to, periodicals, newspapers, fiction, non-fiction, and reference books.
- (c) Where the population of an institution includes inmates of foreign origin, staff shall attempt to provide reading materials in the inmates' language.
- (d) Inmate library services shall be made available to inmates in special housing units.
- (e) The Warden or designee may authorize the use of inmates as library assistants.

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 24900, May 1, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984 as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 38249, June 29, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 24900, May 1, 1981]