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Deconstructing The First Step Act of 2018 Risk and Needs Assessment System: For Inmates Seeking To Maximize Prison Time Credits
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About Deconstructing The First Step Act Of 2018 Risk And
Federal Sentencing Alliance is pleased to provide you with this informational book titled: "Deconstructing The First Step Act of 2018 Risk and Needs Assessment System, For Inmates Seeking To Maximize Prison Time Credits", together with Appendix 1, a republished excerpt of Attorney General William Barr’s July 20, 2019 prototype release of The First Step Act of 2018 "PATTERN" Risk and Needs Assessment System. Appendix 1 is 96 pages long, while the synopsis and commentary is significantly shorter at 22 pages, analyzing core provisions. United States Attorney General William Barr announced a new risk and needs assessment system called the “Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs”, or simply "PATTERN”, that will be used shortly for recidivism risk assessment classification and then implementation of earned program and productive activity time credits for early release . Although the risk and needs factors and criteria for PATTERN were released, the actual "tool" to be used by Bureau Of Prisons personnel for scoring purposes has not yet been released. The "tool" is slotted to be released on or about September 3, 2019, following the forty five day public comment window from July 20, 2019. It should be noted that the PATTERN System is not final, and in fact, is subject to change, improvement, modification and a maturing process before it settles. That is the correct thing, as new system may have kinks. As for an inmate trying to estimate their own recidivism risk assessment score right now using the current assessment factors, that can be accomplished without the “tool”. This publication will describe how one can do that. Scoring your own recidivism risk assessment score now may help some inmates to plan ahead with how and by what manner they can capitalize on programming and activities when they become available in the future. Obviously, an inmate cannot score themselves and expect it to be binding on the Bureau Of Prisons, however, if the two scores ar
