substance abuse treatment or cognitive behav-
ioral therapy provided under paragraph (1) of 
this subsection shall be eligible for a reduction 
of incarceration by up to one year. 
‘‘(B) Any prisoner who, in the judgment of 
the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, has com-
pleted at least 30 days of work for Federal 
Prison Industries or vocational and occupa-
tional training shall be eligible to have the total 
period of incarceration reduced by up to the 
total number of days of work for Federal Pris-
on Industries or vocational and occupational 
training, but not to exceed one year. 
‘‘(3) RESTRICTIONS
ON
REDUCTIONS
IN
THE 
PERIOD OF CUSTODY.—Reductions in the period of 
incarceration earned under paragraph (2) of this 
subsection shall not exceed one year.’’. 
(b) CORRESPONDING AMENDMENTS
TO EXISTING 
LAW.—Section 3624(a) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘as provided in subsection (b)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘as provided in subsection (b) and section 
3621(e) and section 3621A(d)(3)’’. 
(c) TRANSITION.—The amendments made by this 
section shall take effect on the date not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this section. 
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SEC. 602. POST-SENTENCING RISK AND NEEDS ASSESS-
MENT SYSTEM AND IN-PRISON RECIDIVISM 
REDUCTION PROGRAMMING. 
(a) DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM.— 
(1) GENERALLY.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this section, the Attor-
ney General shall develop an offender risk and needs 
assessment system, which shall— 
(A) assess and determine the criminogenic 
needs and risk factors of all admitted offenders; 
(B) be used to assign each prisoner to ap-
propriate recidivism reduction programs or pro-
ductive activities based on the prisoner’s spe-
cific criminogenic needs and risk factors; and 
(C) in accordance with section 3621A(d) 
(1) and (2) of title 18, United States Code, doc-
ument eligible prisoners’ required recidivism re-
duction programs or productive activities in a 
case plan and their progress in completing the 
elements of that case plan. 
(2) RESEARCH AND BEST PRACTICES.—In de-
signing the offender risk and needs assessment sys-
tem, the Attorney General shall use available re-
search and best practices in the field and consult 
with academic and other criminal justice experts as 
appropriate. 
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(3) RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOOL.—In 
carrying out this subsection, the Attorney General 
shall prescribe a suitable intake assessment tool to 
be used in carrying out subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of paragraph (1), and suitable procedures to com-
plete the documentation described in subparagraph 
(C) of paragraph (1). The Attorney General shall 
ensure that the assessment tool produces consistent 
results when administered by different people, in 
recognition of the need to ensure interrater reli-
ability. 
(4) VALIDATION.—In carrying out this sub-
section, the Attorney General shall statistically vali-
date the assessment tool on the Federal prison popu-
lation not later than 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this subsection. 
(b) USE OF RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM 
BY BUREAU OF PRISONS.—Subchapter C of chapter 229 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after section 3621 the following: 
‘‘§ 3621A. Post-sentencing risk and needs assessment 
system 
‘‘(a) ASSIGNMENT OF RECIDIVISM REDUCTION PRO-
GRAMS OR PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES.—In recognition that 
some activities or excessive programming may be counter-
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productive for some prisoners, the Attorney General may 
provide guidance to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
on the quality and quantity of recidivism reduction pro-
gramming or productive activities that are both appro-
priate and effective for each prisoner. 
‘‘(b) BUREAU OF PRISONS TRAINING.—The Attorney 
General shall develop protocols and programs for Bureau 
of Prisons personnel responsible for using the Post-Sen-
tencing Risk and Needs Assessment System (hereinafter 
in the section referred to as the ‘Assessment System’) cre-
ated under the SAFE Justice Act. Such training protocols 
shall include a requirement that such personnel dem-
onstrate competence in administering the assessment tool, 
including interrater reliability, on a biannual basis. 
‘‘(c) QUALITY ASSURANCE.—In order to ensure that 
the Director of the Bureau of Prisons is using the Assess-
ment System in an appropriate and consistent manner, 
the Attorney General, the Government Accountability Of-
fice, and the Office of the Inspector General shall monitor 
and assess the use of the Assessment System and shall 
conduct separate and independent periodic audits of the 
use of the Assessment System at Bureau of Prisons facili-
ties. 
‘‘(d) EVIDENCE-BASED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND 
RECIDIVISM REDUCTION PROGRAMMING.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Bureau 
of Prisons shall develop a case plan that targets the 
criminogenic needs and risk factors of each eligible 
prisoner— 
‘‘(A) to guide the prisoner’s rehabilitation 
while incarcerated; and 
‘‘(B) to reduce the likelihood of recidivism 
after release. 
‘‘(2) CASE PLANS.— 
‘‘(A) CONTENT.—Not later than 30 days 
after a prisoner’s initial admission, the Director 
of the Bureau of Prisons shall complete a case 
plan for that prisoner. The plan shall— 
‘‘(i) include programming and treat-
ment requirements based on the prisoner’s 
identified criminogenic needs and risk fac-
tors, as determined by the Assessment Sys-
tem; 
‘‘(ii) ensure that a prisoner whose 
criminogenic needs and risk factors do not 
warrant recidivism reduction programming 
participates in and successfully complies 
with productive activities, including prison 
jobs; and 
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‘‘(iii) ensure that each eligible pris-
oner participates in and successfully com-
plies with recidivism reduction program-
ming or productive activities, including 
prison jobs, throughout the entire term of 
incarceration of the prisoner. 
‘‘(B) TIME
CONSTRAINTS.—The Director 
of the Bureau of Prisons shall ensure that the 
requirements set forth in the case plan are fea-
sible and achievable prior to the prisoner’s re-
lease eligibility date. 
‘‘(C) NOTICE TO PRISONER.—The Director 
of the Bureau of Prisons shall— 
‘‘(i) provide the prisoner with a writ-
ten copy of the case plan and require the 
prisoner’s case manager to explain the con-
ditions set forth in the case plan and the 
incentives for successful compliance with 
the case plan; and 
‘‘(ii) review the case plan with the 
prisoner once every 6 months after the 
prisoner receives the case plan to assess 
the prisoner’s progress toward successful 
compliance with the case plan and any 
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need or eligibility for additional or dif-
ferent programs or activities. 
‘‘(3) INCENTIVE FOR PRISONER’S SUCCESSFUL 
COMPLIANCE WITH CASE PLAN REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (C), the Director of the Bureau 
of Prisons shall, in addition to any other credit 
or reduction a prisoner receives under any other 
provision of law, award earned time credit to-
ward service of the prisoner’s sentence of 10 
days for each calendar month of successful 
compliance with the prisoner’s case plan. A 
prisoner who is detained before sentencing shall 
earn credit for participating in programs or ac-
tivities during that period under this para-
graph. The total time credits that a prisoner 
may earn under this paragraph shall not exceed 
120 days for any year of imprisonment. A pris-
oner may receive credit at the end of each year 
of the sentence being served, beginning at the 
end of the first year of the sentence. For pur-
poses of this section, the first year of the sen-
tence shall begin on the date the sentence com-
menced under section 3585(a) less any credit 
for prior custody under section 3585(b). Any 
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credits awarded under this section shall vest on 
the date the prisoner is released from custody. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY.—An eligible prisoner 
may receive under subparagraph (A) credit for 
successful compliance with case plan require-
ments for participating in programs or activities 
before the date of enactment of this Act if the 
Director of the Bureau of Prisons determines 
that such programs or activities were the same 
or equivalent to those created pursuant to this 
section before the date of the enactment of this 
subsection. 
‘‘(C) EXCLUSIONS.—No credit shall be 
awarded under this paragraph to any prisoner 
serving a sentence of imprisonment for convic-
tion for any of the following offenses: 
‘‘(i) A Federal conviction for homicide 
in which the prisoner was proven beyond a 
reasonable doubt to have had the intent to 
cause death and death resulted. 
‘‘(ii) A Federal crime of terrorism, as 
defined under section 2332b(g)(5). 
‘‘(iii) A Federal sex offense, as de-
scribed in section 111 of the Sex Offender 
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Registration and Notification Act (42 
U.S.C. 16911). 
‘‘(D) PARTICIPATION BY INELIGIBLE PRIS-
ONERS.—The Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure that 
every prisoner participates in recidivism reduc-
tion programming or productive activities, in-
cluding a prisoner who is excluded from earning 
time credits. 
‘‘(E) OTHER INCENTIVES.—The Director 
of the Bureau of Prisons shall develop policies 
to provide appropriate incentives for successful 
compliance with case plan requirements, in ad-
dition to the earned time credit described in 
subparagraph (A), including incentives for pris-
oners who are precluded from earning credit 
under subparagraph (C). Such incentives may 
include additional commissary, telephone, or 
visitation privileges for use with family, close 
friends, mentors, and religious leaders. 
‘‘(F) PENALTIES.—The Director of the 
Bureau of Prisons shall amend its Inmate Dis-
cipline Program to reduce credits previously 
earned under subparagraph (A) for prisoners 
who violate the rules of the institution in which 
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the prisoner is imprisoned, a recidivism reduc-
tion program, or a productive activity, which 
shall provide— 
‘‘(i) levels of violations and cor-
responding penalties, which may include 
loss of earned time credits; 
‘‘(ii) that any loss of earned time 
credits shall not apply to future earned 
time credits that the prisoner may earn 
subsequent to a rule violation; and 
‘‘(iii) a procedure to restore earned 
time credits that were lost as a result of a 
rule violation based on the prisoner’s indi-
vidual progress after the date of the rule 
violation. 
‘‘(4) RECIDIVISM
REDUCTION
PROGRAMMING 
AND PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES.—Beginning not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of the 
SAFE Justice Act, the Attorney General shall, sub-
ject to the availability of appropriations, make avail-
able to all eligible prisoners appropriate recidivism 
reduction programming or productive activities, in-
cluding prison jobs. The Attorney General may pro-
vide such programming and activities by entering 
into partnerships with any of the following: 
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‘‘(A) Nonprofit organizations, including 
faith-based and community-based organizations 
that provide recidivism reduction programming, 
on a paid or volunteer basis. 
‘‘(B) Educational institutions that will de-
liver academic classes in Bureau of Prisons fa-
cilities, on a paid or volunteer basis. 
‘‘(C) Private entities that will, on a paid or 
volunteer basis— 
‘‘(i) deliver occupational and voca-
tional training and certifications in Bureau 
of Prisons facilities; 
‘‘(ii) provide equipment to facilitate 
occupational and vocational training or em-
ployment opportunities for prisoners; 
‘‘(iii) employ prisoners; or 
‘‘(iv) assist prisoners in prerelease 
custody or supervised release in finding 
employment. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section the following 
definitions apply: 
‘‘(1) CASE PLAN.—The term ‘case plan’ means 
an individualized, documented accountability and be-
havior change strategy developed by the Director of 
the Bureau of Prisons to prepare offenders for re-
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