United States, Nationwide
Federal Bureau of Prisons
BRAVO classification: predicting misconduct to assign security levels, supplied by SAS
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-11EC670F
- Body
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- BRAVO classification: predicting misconduct to assign security levels
- Supplier
- SAS
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DOJ-0146)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-11EC670F
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0146, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'BRAVO Classification' as deployed. The entry says statistical techniques predict the potential for misconduct of newly admitted inmates, and the prediction is used to assign security levels. It names SAS as vendor, gives an operational date of January 2020 and classes the use as high-impact. It lists demographic variables as used.
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