Understanding How the Bureau of Prisons Designates Inmates is Extremely Important to Secure the Best Possible Sentence
Federal Prison Security Designation
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
Security Designation is Very Important to Your Federal Sentence
One of the first things that will happen to a federal inmate is their security number designation. This is an extremely important moment, as the result of this calculation will have a wide impact on their federal sentence. The resulting security designation number will classify the inmate into one of five federal security levels; minimum, low, medium, high, and administrative. If you are a federal inmate, you want your security designation number to be as low as possible to get the best security designation.
How Does the Federal Prison Security Designation Scoring Work?
The Bureau of Prisons has devised a complicated point system that takes into account everything from prior crimes to age. Understanding how this works is key for shaping the best sentence under the circumstances. By this, we mean that you need to be making arguments at sentencing that can change the PSIR, which will then change your score. Also, and equally important, you must be thinking about this during plea negotiations and obtain a plea that can positively change your position when the BOP calculates your security designation score.