Federal Bureau of Investigation | Shanghai Railway Bureau | Bureau of Land Management | Central Bureau of Investigation | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | Bureau of Indian Affairs | United States Census Bureau | United States Bureau of Reclamation | Bureau of Meteorology | Citizens Advice Bureau | Better Business Bureau | Wuhan Railway Bureau | Federal Bureau of Prisons | Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons | Bureau of Engraving and Printing | National Guard Bureau | Bureau of Internal Revenue | Bureau of Plant Industry | The Adjustment Bureau | Japan Credit Bureau | Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) | Bureau of Labor Statistics | Bureau of American Ethnology | American Farm Bureau Federation | National Bureau of Economic Research | Elias Sports Bureau | United States Bureau of Mines | Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation | Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs | Bureau of Ordnance |
Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.
Silverstein claims that "no human contact” status is essentially a form of torture reserved for those who kill correctional officers. "When an inmate kills a guard, he must be punished," a Bureau of Prisons official told author Pete Earley. "We can’t execute Silverstein, so we have no choice but to make his life a living hell.