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Third Circuit Rules Awarding BOP Prisoners 54 Days of Good Time Per Year Is Pro-­Rated by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that 18 U.S.C. section 3624(b)(1), which awards federal prisoners of up to 54 days per …
BOP Announces New Conditional Placement Date Calculation by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman With a change announced by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on October 20, 2025, federal prisoners should finally begin to see more concrete results from the First Step Act (FSA), the 2018 law passed to reduce …
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Prisoner’s Eligibility for Time Credits by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a prisoner must have been convicted of the death-resulting enhancement element of 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(C) before that enhancement may be applied …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
D.C. District Court Dismisses Class Action Against BOP Over Earned Sentence Credits by On June 9, 2025, the federal court for the District of Columbia dismissed a class action lawsuit that challenged the way the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) treated sentence credits earned by prisoners toward early release under …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
ACLU Sues BOP Over Failure to Implement First Step Act Release Credits by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in federal court for the District of Columbia on December 20, 2024, challenging the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for treating sentence credits …
BOP Has a Halfway House Problem by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has faced challenges in implementing the First Step Act (FSA) since it was signed into law in December 2018 by then-President Donald J. Trump (R). Aimed at reducing prisoner population and associated costs, the law provided sentence …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Biden Commutes 31 Federal Drug Sentences by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On April 29, 2023, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) reduced the federal prison sentences of 31 people, each serving time on home confinement for nonviolent drug-related convictions. The commutation of sentences was one component of a strategy …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Latest First Step Act Data by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The First Step Act of 2018 (FSA) was signed into law in December 2018. Among other hoped-for benefits was that the legislation would help reduce recidivism and decrease the overall prison population. However, …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
New BOP Director Clears Up First Step Act Implementation by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On November 18, 2022, almost four years after Congress passed the First Step Act (FSA) to reduce the population incarcerated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), new BOP Director Colette Peters finally clarified the …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Federal Prisoners Finally Receiving Benefits 42 Months After First Step Act Became Law by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On June 18, 2022, almost three-and-a-half years after former President Donald J. Trump (R) signed the First Step Act (FSA) into law in December 2018, the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
These Meds Prevent Overdoses. Few Federal Prisoners Are Getting Them by Beth Schwartzapfel Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them. by Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project In 2018, Congress …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Fourth Circuit Orders Sealing of North Carolina Court’s Order to “Protect Defendant from Harm” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 17, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the sealing of a North Carolina federal district court’s order. That order denied a Defendant’s motion for resentencing …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: First Step Act
Dept of Justice, the First Step Act of 2018 - Risk and Needs Assessment System UPDATED, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General The First Step Act of 2018: Risk and Needs Assessment System - UPDATE January 2020 __________________________ Table of Contents I. Introduction ...................................................................................... 1 II. …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: First Step Act
The First Step Act - Constitutionalizing Prison Release Policies THE FIRST STEP ACT – CONSTITUTIONALIZING PRISON RELEASE POLICIES Harold J. Krent* and Robert Rucker** Predictions of future violence play a central role in most systems of criminal justice. Such assessments help determine the amount of bail imposed, the length of …
Publication • 2019
Filed under: First Step Act
Dept of Justice, the First Step Act of 2018 - Risk and Needs Assessment System, 2019 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General The First Step Act of 2018: Risk and Needs Assessment System The First Step Act of 2018: Risk and Needs Assessment System Table of Contents …