On this episode of Federal Prison Authority Presents: Around the Block, Bruce and Susan cover a variety of new and old topics. Starting off, they discuss the First Step Act provisions and go over the requirements and reports from 2024 to 2025. Susan discusses inmate trends and how this information can be used to help current inmates and their sentencing. Over halfway through, they review incident reports and assess the risk levels of certain inmates. They also discuss which items can affect an inmate's time served in a high- to low-risk security facility. Towards the end, Susan shares the ethnic population that shows up in the risk level and assessment. This leads Susan to share the implications of these findings. This episode is full of new information and also reviews previous topics explored in previous episodes.

Please feel free to send questions to Bruce and Susan. Dr. Susan Giddings can be found on their shared website https://federalprisonauthority.com/who-we-are/ Bruce through his cell (214) 431-2032, and their First Step Act Book on Amazon: https://a.co/d/2dWCECE