This one-page guide helps you prepare a persuasive release plan aligned with the May 28, 2025 BOP directive. Your file—not the policy—determines whether you get home confinement. Here’s what stakeholders need to see:
Typed Release Plan
- Include housing address, contact person, relationship, and confirmation letter.
- List job offer or employment opportunity with company info and support letter.
- Plans while in prison, goals, lay out record of how you will become “extraordinary and compelling.”
Program Completion Summary
- List each course you’ve completed: name, date, location.
- Include any program verification or certificates.
Weekly Calendar of Documented Effort
- Show daily activity: reading, classes, writing, volunteering.
- Include dates and consistent timeframes.
Personal Narrative
- Describe what you’ve done to grow.
- Focus on decisions, insight, and future direction (not emotion).
Evidence of Leadership or Service
- Class sign-in sheets, testimonial letters, lesson plans, or participant lists.
- Highlight how others benefited from your efforts.
Publishing on PrisonProfessorsTalent.com
- Create and update a public profile.
- Share narrative, progress, goals—make your work visible.
Organized File for Stakeholders
- Cover page summarizing key documents.
- Clear section headings.
- Ready to hand to Case Manager, Unit Team, Probation Officer, or Judge.
Start now. Build weekly. Make your file impossible to ignore.
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