Legal Assistant (Office Automation) / Border District Surge - Term
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Posted: January 29, 2026 (5 days ago)
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Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System
Department of Justice
Location
Grand Prairie, Texas
Salary
$49,365 - $78,630
per year
Type
Full Time
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This job involves working in a federal prison system office to handle inmate records, calculate sentences, and classify prisoners for placement, ensuring everything is accurate and secure.
It supports the safe management of inmates and their preparation for release back into society.
A good fit would be someone detail-oriented with experience in legal paperwork or records management, who can work accurately under pressure in a government corrections setting.
Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.
To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education GL-06 and GL-07:As a general rule, education is not creditable above GL-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.
OR Experience GL-06 and GL-07: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level.
To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.
Some examples of the qualifying specialized experience are: GL-06: Experience initiating and composing standardized legal documents routinely needed for legal actions.
Experience establishing, maintaining or closing case files or systems of legal records and abstracting data from files and records.
Experience with the security and control of records, verifying authenticity of court orders, and parole actions.
GL-07: Experience with reviewing and verifying various legal instruments to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies.
Experience performing basic sentence computations and forwarding the material to a technical expert for examination.
Experience with the security and control of records, verifying authenticity of court orders, and parole actions and coordination of offender transfers with other agencies.
If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.
**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.** Major Duties:
Serves as an Inmate Classification & Computation Technician located within the Designations and Sentence Computation Center (DSCC) for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Responsible for Judgment & Commitment files, sentence computations, release audits of computations, computation case audits, security and control of records, and initial inmate classifications for designations.
Collects all necessary information from the US District Court, US Marshal Service and US Probation Office, or other authorities needed to request and provide designation and compute inmates' sentences.
Serves as a subject matter expert, assisting institution staff with responses to questions and interpretations of status and case law within their respective field.
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