From The Urban Institute:
The 2018 First Step Act—the first major federal criminal justice reform legislation in nearly a decade—established earned time credits (ETCs) to provide early release opportunities for people incarcerated in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
But to date, implementation of the ETC program has fallen short of expectations. No one has been released early via ETCs, it remains unclear how many—or if any—have actually received any ETCs, and BOP’s proposed rules for accruing and applying credits are restrictive and incomplete.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has interfered with ETC implementation plans by severely disrupting available programming, without changes now, the outlook for ETCs having a meaningful impact on opportunities for early release is bleak.
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