---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60533"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60533"
heading: "Bureau of Prisons policy on mentoring contacts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60533"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 605 — Recidivism Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — Enhanced Drug Treatment and Mentoring Grant Programs"
  - "Part B — Mentoring"
---

# §60533. Bureau of Prisons policy on mentoring contacts

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 90 days after April 9, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall, in order to promote stability and continued assistance to [offenders](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3) after release from prison, adopt and implement a policy to ensure that any person who provides mentoring services to an incarcerated [offender](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3) is permitted to continue such services after that [offender](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3) is released from prison. That policy shall permit the continuation of mentoring services unless the Director demonstrates that such services would be a significant security risk to the released [offender](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3), incarcerated [offenders](/usc/34/60502.md?p=3), persons who provide such services, or any other person.
- (b) **Report—** Not later than September 30, 2009, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall submit to Congress a report on the extent to which the policy described in [subsection (a)](#a) has been implemented and followed.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–199, title II, § 213, Apr. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 683.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 17533 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.