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64 Admin. L. Rev. 937 (2012)
Demystifying Risk Assessment: Giving Prisoners a Second Chance at Individualized Community Confinement under the Second Chance Act

handle is hein.journals/admin64 and id is 985 raw text is: DEMYSTIFYING RISK ASSESSMENT: GIVING PRISONERS A SECOND CHANCE AT INDIVIDUALIZED COMMUNITY CONFINEMENT UNDER THE SECOND CHANCE ACT JOHN SPYROS ALBANES* TABLE OF CONTENTS In troduction ............................................................................................... 938 I. B ackground ..................................................................................... 942 A. The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Second Chance Act ..942 B. Modern Correctional Research and the Bureau's Data. ..... 948 C. Congressional Intent in the Second Chance Act ..................... 951 II. Judicial Responses to BOP's Interpretation of the Second C hance A ct ..................................................................................... 952 A. Cases Deferring to BOP's Discretion ...................................... 952 B. Sacora v. Thomas: The Ninth Circuit Validates BOP's Pre- R elease R ule ............................................................................ 953 1. Statutory Intent ............................................................ 954 2. N on-Binding Policy ............................................................ 956 III. How to Subject BOP's Pre-Release Rule to Rulemaking ............... 957 A. The Importance of Rulemaking and the Absence of O ssification ......................................... ................................. 957 B. Agencies' General Policies that in Application Result in Legally Binding Rules Are Subject to Notice-and- Com m ent R ulem aking ............................................................ 960 C. Rejecting Agencies' Categorical Assertions of Expertise Without More: Tripoli Rocketry Ass'n v. A TFE ........................... 962 J.D. Candidate, May 2013, American University Washington College of Law. B.A. History, May 2009, Cornell University. I wish to thank my loving family, the staff at the Administrative Law Review, and Professor Lubbers for all their advice and support.