§3635 Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in this part about prisoners, programs, and tools for reducing returns to crime. Dyslexia means a person who struggles with reading more than expected for their intelligence, usually because they have trouble hearing the separate sounds in speech, which makes speaking, reading, and spelling hard. Dyslexia screening program means a low-cost, widely available test that research shows is accurate. Evidence-based recidivism reduction program means a group or individual program proven or likely to lower the chance someone will return to crime, and it may include things like social skills, family and parenting work, moral or academic classes, cognitive therapy, mentoring, substance abuse treatment, job and vocational training, faith-based services, community engagement, prison work, victim-impact or restorative programs, and trauma counseling. Prisoner means someone sentenced to federal prison or held by the Bureau of Prisons. Productive activity means a program for prisoners judged low or minimum risk to stay productive and keep that low risk, and can include teaching dyslexia programs to others. Risk and needs assessment tool means a tested method used at intake to judge a prisoner’s chance of returning to crime, to pick which programs will best reduce that chance, and to recheck risk over time using changeable signs of progress or setback.