---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 547.20"
title: "28"
number: "547.20"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/547.20"
---

# §547.20. Policy.


The Bureau of Prisons is responsible for procuring and preparing any food or food ingredients to be served to the institution's inmate population. Except as allowed for in [paragraphs (a) through (c)](#a..c) of this section, the Bureau requires that special food or meals prepared for and/or served to any group(s) of inmates also be served to the institution's entire inmate population. Special food or meals, as identified in [paragraphs (a) through (c)](#a..c) of this section, may be prepared and/or served to a specific group of inmates rather than to the entire inmate population of the institution.

- (a) **Food items sold in the institution's commissary.**
- (b) Religious dietary practices as authorized in accordance with [28 CFR 548.20](/cfr/28/548.20.md).
- (c) **Medical diet foods.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 16374, Apr. 12, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 4001, 4042, 4081, 5015, 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 28 CFR 0.95-0.99.

### 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Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984, as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 28 CFR 0.95-0.99.

### Amendments

[61 FR 16374, Apr. 12, 1996]