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One of the prison reform provisions of the First Step Act, the Earned Time Credit program allows eligible individuals to be released early from prison or transferred to prerelease custody based on those credits. Along with BOP's risk assessment tool, PATTERN, Earned Time Credits can be an effective way to significantly decrease your client's sentence.
Presented by Elizabeth Blackwood, NACDL’s Counsel & Project Director, First Step Act Resource Center, and Alison Guernsey, Clinical Professor of Law, Iowa College of Law
Resources
- First Step Act Statute
- ETC Regulation
- Earned Time Credit Final Rule, 28 C.F.R §523-541
- ETC Policy
- BOP ETC Program Stmt §5410.01 (Nov. 18, 2022; updated in 2023)
- BOP Talking Points on ETC
- Federal Defender One-Pager on ETC
- Brennan Center Article on PATTERN and ETCs
- FAMM Explainer on ETC Rule (Nov. 2022)
- BOP PATTERN Tools and Cut Points
- BOP FSA Programs Guide (Sept. 2023)
- First Step Act Annual Report (April 2023)