Sec. 201. Calculation of savings
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The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Sentencing Commission, shall calculate for each Federal judicial district a baseline revocation rate. The baseline revocation rate for a judicial district is the percentage equivalent of the ratio of the total number of adult supervisees sent to prison from that district during the baseline period to the total number of adult supervisees sent to prison nationally during the same period.
In this subsection— the term sent to prison means sent to Federal or State prison— for a revocation of probation or supervised release; or for a conviction of a new felony offense. The term baseline period means the period beginning January 1, 2012, and ending December 31, 2014. At the conclusion of the calendar year following the implementation of subsection (a), and every calendar year thereafter, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Sentencing Commission shall calculate the following measures:
The average revocation cost, which is the average cost to incarcerate a supervisee revoked to prison in the previous year, including average length of stay times average marginal cost per day. The nationwide revocation rate, which is calculated as the number of supervisees nationwide sent to prison in the previous year as a percentage of the nationwide supervision population as of June 30th of that year. For each judicial district, the district’s revocation rate, which is calculated as the number of supervisees from that district sent to prison in the previous year as a percentage of the district’s supervision population as of June 30th of that year.
For each judicial district, the reduction in revocation rate is the number of adult supervisees from each district not revoked to prison, which is calculated based on the reduction in the district’s revocation rate as calculated under paragraph
(3)from the district’s baseline revocation rate as calculated under subsection (a). In making this estimate, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the Judicial Conference of the United States, may adjust the calculation to account for changes in each district’s caseload in the most recent completed year as compared to the district’s adult supervision population during the years 2012 through 2014. Annually, at the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Prisons and the United States Sentencing Commission, shall assign the appropriate supervision revocation tier to each judicial district for which it was estimated that the judicial district successfully reduced its revocation rate, as provided by subsection (b)(4). The tiers are defined for the purposes of this subtitle as follows: A tier 1 district is one which has a district revocation rate, as defined in subsection (b)(3), that is no more than 25 percent higher than the nationwide revocation rate, as defined in subsection (b)(2). A tier 2 district is one which has a district revocation rate, as defined in subsection (b)(3), that is more than 25 percent above the nationwide revocation rate, as defined in subsection (b)(2).