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Center, which maintains the master count of all inmates, and then remain in the unit until the Control Center accepts the count. If a count reported verbally does not match the master count, then the Control Center must notify the Operations Lieutenant and the staff members must recount the inmates. If the second count does not match the master count, then the Operations Lieutenant will order a bed-book count, that is, when inmates are counted using their picture cards, which are on file in the Control Center. A Lieutenant must take at least 1 count in the morning and one in the evening. Correctional staff prepare count slips for each count, which must be prepared in ink, signed by both officers, and retained for 30 days. Count slips may not be altered. BOP policy provides that the “official count will not be cleared until all count slips are received and verified in the Control Center.” b. 30-Minute Rounds The BOP uses additional accountability measures for inmates who are in administrative detention or disciplinary segregation, i.e., for those detained in a SHU. In such cases, a correctional staff member must observe all inmates at least twice an hour, once during the first 30 minutes (e.g., 12 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.) and again during the second 30 minutes (e.g., 12:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.). BOP policy provides that these “rounds are to be conducted on an irregular schedule and no more than 40 minutes apart.” These same requirements for rounds are also described in the Post Orders for the MCC New York's SHU. c. Documentation Regarding Inmate Status and Confinement BOP policy also provides that each institution must prepare a daily change/transfer sheet, which indicates changes to an inmate's status, including housing and job assignments and medical convalescence. The MCC New York SHU Post Orders require that correctional staff assigned to the SHU create a SHU file for each inmate housed in that unit and that morning watch officers audit the inmate files every night. The MCC New York SHU Post Orders further specify that all pertinent information about an inmate's confinement should be noted on a Special Housing Unit Record Form (BP-292), and that SHU officers must maintain a log of pertinent information regarding inmate activity and enter such information into the BOP computer system TRUSCOPE, which provides institution staff with detailed inmate and institution security-related information and provides unit officers an electronic event log. d. Cell Searches BOP policy requires that BOP staff routinely and irregularly search housing units to, among other things, maintain sanitary standards and eliminate safety hazards.’* The MCC New York SHU Post Orders require that officers assigned to the SHU conduct searches of the SHU common areas and cells, and that the entire SHU be searched every week. BOP policy and MCC New York SHU Post Orders require written documentation of each housing unit search. 3. Psychological Screening a. Initial Screening Pursuant to BOP policy governing inmates in pretrial detention status (Program Statement 7331.04, Pretrial Inmates), all pretrial inmates must have an initial risk/needs assessment screening within 48 hours of 12 BOP Program Statement 5521.06, Searches of Housing Units, Inmates, and Inmate Work Areas. 10 DOJ-OGR- 00023377