BOP SCAN Mail Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 1295 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1295 To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 3, 2025 Mr. Justice (for himself, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cruz, and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bureau Of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics in Mail Act'' or the ``BOP SCAN Mail Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The Bureau of Prisons has 122 institutions located throughout the United States, employs nearly 38,000 employees, and is responsible for more than 150,000 Federal inmates. (2) Inmate mail is a primary entry point for smuggling drugs into correctional facilities, with tainted mail incidents also on the rise. (3) Elimination of dangerous contraband, including synthetic drugs, in mail is essential to protecting the health and safety of employees of the Bureau of Prisons and Federal inmates. (4) Prisons in the United States are increasingly deadly facilities, with a 600 percent rise in drug overdoses in recent years. (5) The introduction of synthetic drugs, particularly fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, into correctional facilities by mail t