and failures to implement policies under the three-year-old First Step Act (FSA). New Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Aside from all the internal challenges, the BOP claims it does not have the resources to fully implement the First Step Act (FSA). The FSA requires BOP to place inmates (BOP calls them adults in ...

courts have received an influx of motions for compassionate release pursuant to the 2018 First Step Act (FSA). Codified in 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), the FSA was a bipartisan effort to reduce the ...

The Trump-era First Step Act has allowed thousands of nonviolent federal offenders to leave prison sooner, but advocates say they have reviewed numerous instances of inmates remaining behind bars ...

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