(BOP) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) is focused on evaluating the effectiveness of its programs. In furtherance of the agency's recidivism research, the FBOP's Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) has entered into a partnership with the University of California (UC), Berkeley's Data Science Discovery Program. ORE will be working with UC Berkeley Data Science professors and students to enable the FBOP to become the first Department of Justice component to analyze criminal history data by looking beyond merely re-arrest for purposes of recidivism analysis. Through this collaboration, FBOP may be able to show the effectiveness of the eventual use of re-conviction data when measuring risk of recidivism for those convicted of a federal offense.
The Attorney General's Annual FSA Report (April 2023) again reflected the call from stakeholders to pursue better measures of recidivism. The FBOP is hopeful that the "Recidivism Coding Project: Investigating Potential Changes to Federal Recidivism Tracking" will create the foundation of new federal recidivism measures in the near future.