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Budget: Though the First Step Act authorizes Congress to appropriate $75 million per year between 2019 and 2023, only $14 million was explicitly earmarked for funding the legislation when President Trump released his 2020 budget priorities in March 2019. This lead First Step Act advocates to worry that the bill's underfunding represented an ...
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.
In her first public interview as acting director of the Domestic Policy Council, Rollins said she was focused on bringing "together all sides of the table to figure out how we can move forward together." [13] She said the U.S. "is a nation in mourning for the senseless death of George Floyd and the senseless loss of livelihood all over this ...
Trump signed the First Step Act, which reduced mandatory minimum sentences, expanded credits for well-behaved prisoners looking for shorter sentences and aimed to reduce recidivism. But Trump has ...
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.
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
The Bureau of Prisons licensed a First-Step-Act program in created: Preparing for Success after Prison. During his decades of federal prison incarceration, Santos successfully transformed his life for the better by obtaining an education, getting married, writing several books, blogging, and working to prepare himself for a successful law ...