NACDL - Letter to DAG and BOP on Access to Counsel in BOP Pretrial and Other Facilities (August 2023)

Letter to DAG and BOP on Access to Counsel in BOP Pretrial and Other Facilities (August 2023)

Back on November 4, 2022, NACDL’s then President Nellie L. King wrote to Director Peters to amplify the association’s call for (1) permitting privileged and unmonitored email communications between attorneys and clients in both pretrial and post-conviction settings and (2) for a “help desk” to facilitate scheduling of privileged attorney-client telephone calls.

We have seen the DOJ Advisory Group’s July 20, 2023, Report and Recommendations... In general, we think many of the recommendations are sensible. But some of them are troubling.