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1 Φεβ 2024 · Feb 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of federal inmates, who are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, became eligible on Thursday for reduced sentences, and in many cases immediate release from...
15 Μαρ 2024 · The Supreme Court sided with the government on Friday, narrowly interpreting a provision of a landmark criminal justice law in a decision likely to limit the number of federal prisoners who are...
15 Μαρ 2024 · WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to potentially thousands of federal prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under a 2018 law.
8 Φεβ 2023 · Expediting the end of mass incarceration requires reducing prison admissions and scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there. Past reforms have reduced the number of people imprisoned for a drug offense by 46% between peak year 2007 and 2020 (see Figure 5).
22 Αυγ 2023 · In 2018, Congress passed and then-President Donald Trump signed into law the bipartisan First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill designed to promote rehabilitation, lower recidivism, and reduce excessive sentences in the federal prison system.
14 Μαρ 2024 · In a 2019 update to that survey, 75% of victims “support reducing prison terms by 20% for people in prison that are a low risk to public safety and do not have life sentences” and using the savings to fund crime prevention and rehabilitation.
5 Νοε 2018 · Policy decisions of the U.S. Sentencing Commission over the past decade have also demonstrated that federal sentences can be reduced without adversely affecting crime control goals. The first instance occurred from the Commission’s Guidelines amendment change for crack cocaine convictions in 2007, which was made retroactive as of 2008.
