The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly cleared a key procedural hurdle toward passing the Laken Riley Act, a bill aimed at ...

Rep. Laura Gillen, a first-term Democrat from New York, said she was “proud” to back a bipartisan answer on immigration.

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 ...

In the fall of 2018, I stood in the White House as President Trump endorsed the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming federal sentencing and modernizing our outdated prison system.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 19: Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) speaks on the passage of the First Step Act on ... [+] December 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said he would sign the ...

The First Step Act created a system of earned time credits for prisoners who participated in programs found to reduce recidivism. Inmates can shave off 10 days from their sentence for every 30 ...

The First Step Act of 2018 was one of his signature legislative accomplishments. The law curtailed mandatory-minimum rules that forced judges to give overly harsh sentences, scaled back three ...

(WAND)- This Saturday marks six years since the "First Step Act" came into law—a program designed to assist individuals on the verge of being released from prison in reintegrating into society.

Tammy Nobles, whose daughter Kayla Hamilton was sexually assaulted and then murdered by an illegal immigrant, responds to the ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a new law that could force TikTok to shut down in the U.S., with conservative and ...