The Bureau of Prisons has a halfway house capacity issue and they need a transparent way of placing prisoners there.

They were told by a federal victim advocate it was due to the First Step Act, a relatively new prison reform bill allowing federal inmates to earn time credits off their sentences for good behavior.

With a projected GOP House majority, President-elect Trump regains a Republican trifecta, boosting chances to push his agenda ...

Progress is always something worth celebrating, even if there’s only a little of it. The First Step Act, which President Trump signed into law in December 2018, included a provision that ...

It has been a huge success. Since the First Step Act passed, thousands more people leaving the federal prison system have rebuilt their lives without reoffending — in fact, the federal ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters had a new video released in an attempt to clarify the rules under which First Step Act ...

Senators Chris Van Hollen, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse and Elizabeth Warren introduced the Sensible Taxation and Equity Promotion (STEP) Act yesterday. Here is a quick synopsis ...

The government of Alberta says it’s taking steps to strengthen legislation governing the province’s child care sector but some parents say the changes don't go far enough.

Our first legislation around a possible capital gains tax at death is called the Sensible Taxation and Equity Promotion (STEP) Act. Normally I would say this has little chance of passing Congress ...