First Step Act: Risk Assessment and Earned Release Credits

The first ‘book’ below is the federal Bureau of Prisons PATTERN survey to assess a persons ‘risk of recidivism’.

The survey is not available on this page, but the scoring tool is: https://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/pattern.jsp

The second ‘book’ is the federal Bureau of Prisons First Step Act Approved Programs, the activities that people can engage in to accrue Earned-Release Credits.

The web page for that document is here:  2023 First Step Act Approved Programs Guide: https://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/docs/fsa_guide_eng_2023.pdf