Federal prison runs on paperwork. This section decodes the BOP documents people are handed, asked to sign, or told to file — block by block, using the Bureau’s own forms and the Program Statements that govern them.
Every page here quotes the form’s actual text rather than describing it, and says plainly when the Bureau does not publish a blank copy. See How we verify.
The forms
- BP-A0148, Inmate Request to Staff (the “cop-out”)
- BP-A0288, Incident Report
- BP-E583, Report of Incident
- BP-A0621, Authorization for Release of Medical Information
- Form DOJ-361, Certification of Identity
- BP-A0358, Refusal of Medical Treatment
- BP-A0392, Release Authorization
- BP-A0224, Notification to Visitor
- Your Sentence Monitoring Computation Sheet, line by line
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Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026