Right on Crime is promoting the Bureau of Prisons' new plan to implement the First Step Act and Second Chance Act, aiming to ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has issued a policy memorandum to staff detailing improvements to the First Step Act and Second ...

The First Step Act (FSA) was a landmark achievement in the area of criminal justice reform. It came at a time of partisan politics and a divided Congress and was the only significant bi-partisan ...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that he would seek the repeal of the FIRST STEP Act, a major criminal justice reform bill signed into law by former President Donald Trump in ...

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 ...

First Step Act showed Republicans, Democrats can work together in a bipartisan way to make justice system more just and let 7,500 people rejoin their families.

The First Step Act also made modest reforms to some of the worst “war on drugs”–era federal sentencing laws. One such law required federal judges to give 25-year sentence enhancements to ...

A convicted terrorist financier serving a 30-year sentence in U.S. federal prison was recently released under the First Step Act after serving only 23 years, and said he "would be proud" to send ...

First Step Act advanced prison reform, but hundreds are still serving unjust sentences New Sentencing Commission guidelines will give them a chance for compassionate release.

As a Senator who co-authored the First Step Act and as the first person who was released from prison because of it, we have learned that being smart on crime—while also making our justice system ...

Nearly 30 years ago, as a boy in a brightly colored Uncle Sam hat, I proudly worked the passing throngs at a political candidate’s booth in front of the sheep barn at the county fair.