SOP_NUMBER: 227.03-att-1
TITLE: Offender Reference Library Collection
REFERENCE_CODE: IIA14-0001
DIVISION: Facilities Management
TOPIC_AREA: Facilities Conditions of Confinement
EFFECTIVE_DATE: 2020-06-30
WORD_COUNT: 153
POWERDMS_URL: https://public.powerdms.com/GADOC/documents/105713
URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/227.03-att-1/

SUMMARY:
This attachment specifies the approved legal materials that must be maintained in prison reference libraries operated by GDC. It requires libraries to stock only materials from an approved list, including LexisNexis resources on the current Electronic Distributed Media and contact information for foreign consulates. Law librarians at facilities with large lockdown units must provide offenders access to these approved materials through printed copies or other methods approved by the warden.

KEY_TOPICS: prison library, legal materials, LexisNexis, offender access, law library, lockdown units, legal reference, approved holdings, inmate legal resources

ATTACHMENTS:
  1. Offender Reference Library Collection
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/227.03-att-1/
  2. Offender Reference Library Sign In Sheet
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/227.03-att-2/
  3. Offender Reference Library Daily Log Sheet
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/227.03-att-3/
  4. Legal Library Computer Log Sheet
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/227.03-att-4/

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SOP 227.03
Attachment 1
6/30/20


**Offender Reference Library Collection**

A. All prisons operated by GDC with a reference library shall maintain only those legal

materials which are on the approved list of holdings and they are as follows:


1. All resources provided by LexisNexis and contained on the most current version

of the LexisNexis Electronic Distributed Media (portable hard drive) as approved
by GDC’s Office of Legal Services.

2. An updated list of contact information for foreign consulates.


B. Law librarians for prisons that maintain lock down units of over 150 beds where

direct access to the prison’s reference library is not ordinarily provided shall facilitate
access to the above approved list of holdings for offenders in such units. This may be
accomplished by providing such offenders with printed copies of requested materials
or by any other method approved by the warden/superintendent or authorized
designee.


Retention Schedule: This attachment shall be maintained until revised or obsolete.