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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.
Under the “safety valve” provision of the First Step Act, criminal defendants could be eligible for shorter sentencing (less than the mandatory 15-year minimum) so long as they did not have ...
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. Some continue to serve out the remainder of their original sentence at home under the "home confinement" provisions of the act.
In December 2018, Trump signed the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill which sought to rehabilitate prisoners and reduce recidivism, notably by expanding job training and early-release programs, and lowering mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. [173]
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
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 ...
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.
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.