When dates are calculated properly,
your loved one comes home sooner.

Congress wrote the formula. BOP wrote the program statements. OutDate does the math exactly the way both of them say to — every day of good conduct time, every First Step Act credit, halfway house, RDAP — and shows you the date your loved one is actually owed.

Trusted with 5,000+ cases. Saved Matthew C. 390 days — days BOP wasn't counting.

The rules moved 4 times this year. Your case manager may not have noticed.

First Step Act credits have been rewritten by program statement, memo, and court ruling over and over since 2022. Good conduct time pro-ration just changed in the Third Circuit. BOP's own sentence computation staff work from guidance that can be months stale. OutDate tracks the Federal Register, every BOP program statement, and every circuit decision, versions each change with its citation, and recalculates your case the day it takes effect. If the date moved, you'll know before the facility does.

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The difference is measured in months.

On a 60-month sentence, good conduct time alone is 270 days. First Step Act credits are worth up to a year toward supervised release, with more toward halfway house and home confinement. Second Chance Act and RDAP stack on top. Miss one, count it at the wrong rate, or start the clock late — and BOP does all three routinely — and your loved one sits in a cell for time the law says they already earned.

How families use it

From a date you doubt to a request they have to answer.

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Get the right number

Good conduct time, First Step Act credits, halfway house, RDAP — computed from Congress's statute and BOP's own program statements, with the rules version and every input printed next to the answer.

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Hold BOP to it

Enter the dates from the sentence computation sheet. OutDate shows the gap line by line, in days, with the statute BOP is ignoring on each one.

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Put it in writing

Case-manager emails, Unit Team requests, and the BP-8 → BP-11 administrative remedy chain — drafted from your numbers, deadline-tracked, ready to print and mail. You send it. They have to answer it.

Built for the people who carry more than one case.

Unlimited cases, exportable ledgers, exhaustion records formatted for a §2241 petition, and what-if modeling for PATTERN changes or RDAP completion. The calculation you'd do by hand in an hour, done in seconds and defensible on paper.

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BOP's date is later than the law allows. Make them fix it.

You're not imagining it — earned-time-credit miscalculations are one of the most common grievances in federal custody, and BOP does not go looking for its own mistakes. Run the numbers. Save the case. When the dates don't match, the difference becomes a document with statute citations, not an argument at a Unit Team meeting.

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Frequently asked questions

How does OutDate calculate a federal release date?

The same way BOP is required to: sentence commencement and jail credit under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b), good conduct time under §3624(b), First Step Act earned time credits under §3632(d), then Second Chance Act placement and any RDAP reduction under §3621(e). Every result shows the rules version and the inputs it was computed from.

How current is it?

Every rule change — program statement, Federal Register notice, circuit ruling — is versioned with its citation in the public changelog and applied to saved cases the day it takes effect. OutDate has been trusted with more than 5,000 cases.

What if BOP's date doesn't match?

Enter the dates from the sentence computation sheet. OutDate shows the difference in days with the statute behind each line, then drafts the case-manager email, Unit Team request, and BP-8 through BP-11 remedy filings from your numbers, with every response deadline tracked.

Is this legal advice?

No. OutDate is a calculation and drafting tool. It doesn't create an attorney–client relationship, and you should have an attorney review anything before you file it.