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.
The Bureau of Prisons has a halfway house capacity issue and they need a transparent way of placing prisoners there.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to be dealt a series of losses in court on First Step Act ... why isn't BOP ...
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 ...
The First Step Act, which President Trump signed into law in December 2018, included a provision that retroactively applied the reductions in penalties for crack cocaine offenses that Congress had ...
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 ...
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 ...
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