This section refers to offenders who are charged with federal crimes and awaiting a court hearing or who are convicted of crimes and awaiting sentencing.
Your attorney will be contacted by a probation officer to schedule the presentence investigation interview at the probation office. If you are on bond supervision, this generally will be a separate probation officer from the officer who is supervising you for pretrial supervision purposes. For detained defendants, the interview is held at the detention facility. The probation officer will meet with you and ask a variety of questions about your personal history. This information will be provided to the judge in a presentence investigation report. The report will also contain information about your federal case, any criminal history you have, and the sentencing options available to the Court. You and your attorney, as well as the Assistant United States Attorney assigned to your case, will have the opportunity to review the report before it is provided in its final version to the judge. You will have the opportunity, through your attorney, to comment on the report and file any objections to it. The report is provided to the Court approximately 10 days prior to your sentencing hearing.
If you are on pretrial supervision, your supervising officer will contact you with that information upon our office receiving it from the federal Bureau of Prisons. If you are on a personal recognizance bond, the probation officer who prepared your presentence investigation report will contact you with that information upon our office receiving it. You may also separately be notified by your attorney and/or the United States Marshals Service.
Information is available at the Bureau of Prisons website, http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/surrenders.jsp
Information about Bureau of Prisons facilities, including contact information and facility orientation handbooks, is available on the BOP’s website, http://www.bop.gov
If you were released on bond with pretrial supervision, you are still required to report to your U.S. Pretrial Services Agency Officer until you report to prison. Failure to abide by these conditions after sentencing could result in arrest and remand for immediate service of the sentence.