Earned Time Credits and PATTERN for Defense Attorneys [NACDL Engage & Exchange]

Elizabeth Blackwood, NACDL’s Counsel & Project Director, First Step Act Resource Center, and Alison Guernsey, Clinical Professor of Law, Iowa College of Law provide an overview of PATTERN and Earned Time Credits, explain how you can utilize these tools to benefit your client, and discuss how to proceed if the BOP fails to provide the time credits your client has earned.

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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

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