Bureau of Prisons: Eligibility and Capacity Impact Use of Flexibilities to Reduce Inmates' Time in Prison
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
May. 09, 2012
ANNOTATION: The use of authorities by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP), such as The Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP), community corrections, and good conduct time, to shorten a federal prisoner’s amount of time spent incarcerated is examined. Sections of this report include: background; BOP’s use of authorities that can reduce a federal prisoner’s period of incarceration varies; inmate eligibility and lack of capacity impact BOP’s use of certain flexibilities; conclusions; recommendations for Executive Action; agency comments and evaluation. “Inmate eligibility and lack of capacity impact BOP’s use of certain flexibilities and programs that can reduce an inmate’s time in prison. BOP officials cited inmate ineligibility for RRC placement (e.g., inmates who are likely to escape or be arrested or with sentences of 6 months or less, among other things) as the primary reason that some inmates are not released through community corrections and one of the main reasons that some inmates are not able to participate in RDAP. BOP’s lack of additional RRC space has prevented it from increasing the length of its RRC placements. According to BOP, lack of program capacity also prevents eligible inmates from entering and completing RDAP early enough to earn their maximum allowable sentence reductions, which prevents BOP from maximizing the cost savings provided by the authority.”
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