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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. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal ...
Justices considered how a safety valve provision of the 2018 First Step Act applies to nonviolent drug dealers WASHINGTON (AP) […] The post Supreme Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some ...
In August 2017, the governor passed a reform bill for the criminal justice system of Connecticut. This bill included a bail reform to get rid of cash bail for misdemeanor level and non-violent offenses. It also included a requirement of a criminal conviction before seizing the asset(s) someone put up for bail.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul. The justices took the case ...
That’s done through the First Step Act, a 2018 criminal justice reform bill that aims to reduce the federal prison population and reduce recidivism. The first year Holmes was in prison, she was ...
A re-authorization bill, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-385) was enacted in December 2018, [16] marking the first reauthorization since 2002. [ 1 ] addition to reauthorizing core parts of the existing JJDPA, the 2018 bill made several significant changes to juvenile justice law.
The Criminal Justice Reform Act (CJRA), signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker in 2018, created some restrictions on restrictive housing, which it defines as upwards of 22 hours of isolation a day. While the law does not set an absolute limit on the number of days a person can be held in solitary, it requires placement reviews every 90 days ...
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