How much of a personal risk was working with the Trump administration to pass the First Step Act? I had been 25 years working on the left, taking on only progressive causes, and I thought if I don ...

It is hard not to cry when you watch the video. After 23 years behind bars, his sister wrote in a Facebook post, a formerly incarcerated man walks through the door of his family’s house.

Dear House Judiciary Committee Member: On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the 74 undersigned organizations, we urge you to vote “No” on the FIRST STEP Act ...

They then will describe how the system is broken, and layout plans to fix it. The First Step Act is sure to be front and center in those plans. Whether the candidates helped usher the legislation ...

T he FIRST STEP Act will come up for a vote in the Senate this week, bolstered by bipartisan support for reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders. Much of the fanfare around the bill misses its ...

But the FIRST STEP Act is just that: a first step that will, among other things, give judges more leeway at sentencing and adjust mandatory minimums for some crack cocaine charges. This effort ...

The First Step Act dismantled draconian practices that most Americans, if they knew about them, would be horrified to believe ever existed. Before the Act, it was legal—and common—for pregnant ...

to hold a vote on the First Step Act, a move the senator was reluctant to make because it divided the Republican caucus. The legislation was among the furthest reaching for federal prison policy ...