The U.S. Department of Justice Creates Risk Assessment Tool to Help Determine Who is Eligible for Early Release Under First Step Act by   The U.S. Department of Justice created the Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (“PATTERN”) to help determine who is eligible to earn credits for …

Microsoft Invests in Digital Incarceration by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In the summer of 2020, the social landscape of the United States was shaken by nationwide demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd. In response, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told his employees that the company was committed to …

Secret BOP Document Raises Risk Factors, Security Levels of Prisoners by A secret Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) document, obtained by ProPublica, is being used to evaluate the security levels of prisoners, leaving some who qualified for release to home confinement stuck in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic with little …

U.S. v. Campbell, CA, Opinion, Supervised Release, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 17-50140 v. D.C. No. 2:16-cr-00387-BRO-1 THERESA HELENA CAMPBELL, Defendant-Appellant. OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Beverly Reid …