Last June, Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued a blanket pardon to 100,000 people in Maryland, forgiving decades of low-level marijuana ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

After a two-year legislative effort, Tennessee's Farmland Preservation Act officially went into effect Tuesday.

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court ignored Congress's intention in its ruling on retroactive relief under the First ...

The Downpayment Toward Equity Act would provide $100 billion in direct assistance to help first-time, first-generation ...

Under the First Step Act, certain first-time offenders became eligible for leniency in pending cases. But what should happen ...

The Supreme Court released decisions Thursday on Planned Parenthood, DNA testing and the First Step Act geared towards bringing down certain prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Here & Now 's ...

We need another First Step Act—one that focuses on preventing injustice before a case even reaches trial. The First Step Act tackled inequities inside prisons; now, we must address the abuses ...

Not only that, but around Thanksgiving 2018 Trump leaned on then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to hold a vote on the First Step Act, a move the senator was reluctant to make ...

“I don’t know how he even qualifies for the First-Step Act,” said Santana. “That’s my first question.” Multiple families told KCTV5 that they were told Courtney qualifies.

The First Step Act, a bipartisan law signed in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump, was enacted to give an opportunity for “minimum-risk” or “low-risk” offenders to receive shortened ...

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 ...