Opinion ID: 2708522
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Heading: Supervised Release Conditions Generally

Text: “Apart from a handful of conditions required by the Sentencing Reform Act itself, conditions of supervised release are discretionary.” United States v. Siegel, Nos. 13-1633, 131640, 13-1767, --- F.3d ----, 2014 WL 2210762, at  (7th Cir. May 29, 2014) (citations omitted). Some of the discretionary conditions are “standard,” found in the sentencing guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c); and still others are “special conditions” that are imposed for particular offenses. § 5D1.3(d)– (e). Id. While the sentencing guidelines list some conditions that are recommended for particular offenses, the list is “not No. 13-3373 5 intended to be exhaustive; sentencing judges can impose conditions of their own devising.” Siegel, 2014 WL 2210762 at . Be that as it may, all conditions must “comply with overall federal sentencing policy as stated in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), especially subsection (a)(2), which requires the judge to con- sider ‘the need for the sentence imposed–(A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; (B) to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct; (C) to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant; and (D) to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner.’” Id. “[A] district judge is required to give a reason, consistent with the sentencing factors in section 3553(a), for every discretionary part of the sentence that the judge is imposing, including any non-mandatory condi- tions of supervised release.” United States v. Bryant, --- F.3d ---, No. 13-3845, 2014 WL 2612349, at  (7th Cir. June 12, 2014).