L.  PROGRAMS

• BPT Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners must be provided with a list of CDC programs in which qualified prisoners can meaningfully participate, either with or without accommodation or with appropriate and readily available accommodation. 

• The list shall specify the types of programs available, the particular disabilities the programs can accommodate and the prisons in which they are offered.

• At life prisoner parole consideration hearings, the BPT shall not recommend that prisoners participate in programs that are unavailable to them by reason of their disabilities as a factor in supporting denial of a parole date or a multi-year denial.

• An agreement was reached between the BPT and the Plaintiffs’ Counsel that in lieu of the list required by the injunction, CDC staff will include specific information in the life prisoner’s Board Report regarding the life prisoner’s attempts to access the required program and CDC’s determination, if any, regarding whether that program is available to that prisoner.

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