First Step Act- Pre-Release Earned Time Credit Programs & Activities: Bureau of Prisons Efforts to Undermine Incentive Programming, 2019-2022

This Federal Sentencing Alliance publication was co-authored by Florida and New York Attorney Ralph S. Behr,

This publication examines all aspect of the First Step Act early release incentive programming by the Bureau of Prisons, related to recidivism reductions programs and productive activities during the period, and continued period, 2019-2022.

Various time credit award discrepancies and time credit award failures are examined in detail, together with First Step
Act references and U.S.Code citations. The Authors examine Congressional authorities, implementation delays, time credit award disputes, time period disputes, Bureau of Prisons policies, and failures to apply time credits already earned complaints by inmates.

The entire period 2019-2021, that will soon lead into 2022 is examined in this book. The Authors believe this publication to be the most comprehensive analysis of all First Step Act early release incentive programming time credit issues and problems in print today. IF YOU HAVE AN INCENTIVE PROGRAMMING TIME CREDIT ISSUE, THIS IS THE BOOK.

In 2019 Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) publicly accused the Bureau of Prisons, by and through Attorney General William Barr 2019-2020, of intentionally undermining the First Step Act. Senator Durbin is valiantly moving to fix, amend and supplement numerous First Step Act provisions in the 2021-2022 117th Congressional Session.

With that back drop, the Authors examine various claimed shortfalls, disparities, discrepancies, delays, and failures related to pre-release time credit incentive programming, and previously existing programs and activities, administered by the Bureau of Prisons from December 21, 2018 to the present date. Various disparities were noted effecting time credit awards (shortened date spans), the amount of rewards (hours not days), the timing of awards (arbitrary reductions), the timely application of earned time credits (discretionary at this time by the BOP, through January 20, 2022), and what appears to be arbitrary policies and Rules in place that inhibit meaningful benefit from incentive programming for time credits.

All major current problems associated with time credit awards and time credits (not) applied are examined at length. The Authors opine that the First Sep Act early release time credit incentive programming System is broken and explains in detail why it is broken.

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Federal Sentencing Alliance, as well as Ralph S.Behr, have authored various other First Step Act related publications, all available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Please See Introduction to this Book by flipping through the pages visible above, for a more detailed description of contents.

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