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Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (PATTERN)

U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Prisons · Corrections and probation · 2025

status as stated: DeployedUse-case inventory entryRisk assessment

The DOJ 2025 inventory lists Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (PATTERN) for U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Prisons. The row states the stage as Deployed; it classifies the use case as Classical/Predictive Machine Learning for Law Enforcement.

The tool uses pre-defined rules to score an inmate's recidivism risk level.

Status date given by the source: 08/2021.

Official record: justice.gov · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: doj-inventory-2025
Notes: DOJ spreadsheet row DOJ-0160; original component field: Department of Justice / FBOP.

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