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This session provides an overview of PATTERN and Earned Time Credits, explains how you can utilize these tools to benefit your client, and discusses how to proceed if the BOP fails to provide the time credits your client has earned. 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.
NACDL supports legislative efforts to strengthen "good time" and "merit time" legislation in New York.
Letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul in support of legislative efforts in New York that seek to abolish mandatory minimums, allow judges to reconsider excessive sentences after a specified amount of time, and strengthen "good time" and "merit time" laws in order to mitigate the drivers and consequences of the trial penalty.
The Virginia COVID-19 Justice Coalition, of which NACDL is a member, successfully advocated for legislation to expand earned sentence credits in Virginia.
