Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 16, 2025

Title 28 - Judicial Administration last revised: Jan 17, 2025
§ 548.14 - Community involvement (volunteers, contractors).

(a) The institution's chaplain may contract with representatives of faith groups in the community to provide specific religious services which the chaplain cannot personally deliver due to, ordinarily, religious prescriptions or ecclesiastical constraints to which the chaplain adheres.

(b) The institution's chaplain may secure the services of volunteers to assist inmates in observing their religious beliefs.

(c) The Warden or the Warden's designee (ordinarily the chaplain) may require a recognized representative of the faith group to verify a volunteer's or contractor's religious credentials prior to approving his or her entry into the institution.

source: 44 FR 38251, June 29, 1979, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 28 CFR 548.14