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Title I of the First Step Act, as codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3621(h), also directs the Director of Bureau of Prisons to perform an initial risk and needs assessment of all federal prisoners within 180 days of the Attorney General's release of the risk and needs assessment system, and to begin expanding recidivism-reduction activities.
The Trump-era First Step Act has allowed thousands of nonviolent federal offenders to earn shortened prison time, but advocates say they have reviewed numerous instances of inmates staying in ...
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to thousands of prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under the First Step Act of 2018.
FAMM organized lobbying efforts in support of the First Step Act, a law which reforms the U.S. federal prison system and seeks to reduce recidivism and decrease the federal inmate population. [4] [5] The organizers succeeded in their efforts and the Act was passed by the 115th Congress and signed into law in December 2018. It changed U.S ...
The First Step Act is a Trump-era criminal justice reform initiative intended to cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve federal prison conditions.
The First Step Act, signed by President Trump in 2018, allowed for the expedited release of around 30,000 inmates from federal prison. Some were terminally ill prisoners released under compassionate release.
Matthew Charles was the first person to be released after the passing of the First Step Act. Charles spent 21 years of a 35 year sentence in federal prison for a non-violent drug offense.
Terry v. United States, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with retroactive changes to prison sentences for drug-possession crimes related to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, its retroactive nature established by the First Step Act of 2018. In a unanimous judgement, the Court ruled that while the First Step Act ...