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The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018.
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 does ...
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 ...
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.
[1] [2] [3] A Senate version of the First Step Act was signed into law in December 2018, which expanded the safety valve to include offenders with up to four criminal history points, excluding 1-point offenses, such as minor misdemeanors. [4]
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
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 ...
It was the first time a Republican president had acknowledged pride month, [376] [378] and the first time Trump had tweeted the acronym "LGBT" since assuming office. Some counted this tweet as an official presidential recognition of Pride Month.