[20011127]RS21077_监控囚犯律师通信：第六修正案的影响.pdf

1 66 FR 55062, Oct. 31, 2001. Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS WebOrder Code RS21077November 27, 2001Monitoring Inmate-Attorney Communications:Sixth Amendment Implicationsname redactedLegislative AttorneyAmerican Law DivisionSummaryCiting the need to ensure that individuals in federal custody are not able to facilitateacts of terrorism through conversations with an attorney, the Department of JusticesBureau of Prisons instituted an interim rule on October 30, 2001, authorizing themonitoring of attorney-client communications when the Attorney General determinesthat reasonable suspicion exists to believe that such communications might facilitate actsof violence or terrorism. This report provides an overview of the provisions of theinterim rule, as well as a brief synopsis of Sixth Amendment implications regardingintentional intrusion into the attorney-client relationship.On October 31, 2001, the Department of Justices Bureau of Prisons published aninterim rule in the Federal Register, effective October 30, 2001: (1) altering regulationsregarding the imposition of “special administrative measures” designed to prevent