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28 CFR § 548.14 - Community involvement (volunteers, contractors).

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t28/s548.14"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "28 CFR § 548.14 - Community involvement (volunteers, contractors)."
title_number: 28
title_name: "Judicial Administration"
section_number: "548.14"
section_name: "Community involvement (volunteers, contractors)."
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT"
part_number: "548"
part_name: "RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984 as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 42 U.S.C. 1996; 28 CFR 0.95-0.99."
regulatory_source: "44 FR 38251, June 29, 1979, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "548"
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# 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.