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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...
20 Αυγ 2024 · The First Step Act includes key sentencing reforms aimed at reducing lengthy and disproportionate sentences for nonviolent drug offenses while establishing incentives for rehabilitative programming in federal prisons.
3 ημέρες πριν · Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Oct. 18, 2022, that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security was in the process of arresting 20 individuals for voter fraud.
10 Οκτ 2024 · Among the report’s key findings: An estimated 4.4 million people are disenfranchised due to a felony conviction, a figure that has declined by 24 percent since 2016, as more states enacted policies to curtail this practice and state prison populations declined modestly.
6 ημέρες πριν · George Hawkins was imprisoned when he was 17 and served a 13-year prison sentence until May 2023. Now 32 years old, he is one of more than 300,000 residents in the Southern state of Virginia who ...
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.
8 Δεκ 2021 · District attorneys pursue crimes and longer sentences at higher rates in election years, according to a new working paper that looks at whether politics affect the behavior of prosecutors and hints at how changing cultural attitudes about crime may influence incarceration rates.
