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The First Step Act (FSA) was a landmark achievement in the area of criminal justice reform. It came at a time of partisan politics and a divided Congress and was the only significant bi-partisan ...
On Monday, January 9, 2022 thousands of federal inmates were informed that their federal prison term was over as a result of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) calculating First Step Act (FSA ...
On Thursday, June 26, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Hewitt v. United States, the justices ...
The First Step Act currently (and arbitrarily) excludes the oldest people in federal prisons—those convicted prior to Nov. 1, 1987—from applying to courts for compassionate release.
Federal inmates who committed their offenses before Nov. 1, 1987, can’t seek compassionate release, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.
In fact, the violent assailant was released early due to the jailbreak D.C. establishment bill that Donald Trump signed into law, known as the “First Step Act.” ...
The First Step Act requires the BOP to ensure there is sufficient space for eligible adults in prerelease custody. Specifically, the FSA states: “The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall ...
The First Step Act, or FSA, is designed to address chronic over-sentencing that arose in the 1990s in response to a crack cocaine crisis and a broader drug epidemic.
In 2018, then-President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan First Step Act as a way to reduce recidivism and give an opportunity for "minimum-risk" or "low-risk" offenders to receive reduced ...
With crime out of control across American cities, our citizens desperately need tough-on-crime leadership like Ron DeSantis.
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