Category: Reentry and Recidivism

Thousands of Lives Are Subject to Being Upended as the CARES Act marches towards eventual reincarceration. These are some of their stories.

BOP regulations will affect how individuals are able to earn time credits for the evidence-based recidivism reduction classes.

Through most of 2020, politicians and advocates across the country pushed for more widespread releases of inmates amidst COVID-19 threats.

A Federal Prosecutor has indicated that individuals on home confinement on the CARES Act may be going back to prison after the pandemic.

Do probation and supervised release hearings lead back to a gateway to eventual incarceration for the accused?

The criminal justice reform law known as the First Step Act has a number of changes to benefit inmates and a defense attorney will help.

A year later, taking a look at the First Step Act and how the provisions have made proactive change.

The Elderly Offender Home Detention Program is a program by which an “Eligible Elderly Offender” or an “Eligible Terminally Ill Offender” can go home for the rest of their sentence.

The FIRST STEP Act makes changes to the way that “good time” is assessed by the Bureau of Prisons, retroactively applies the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Reauthorizes the Second Chance Act, allows inmates to petition the court for compassionate release, bans the shackling of women during child birth, adds “sunlight” provisions to parts of these bills and several other things. This explainer will discuss a majority of portions of the Act.

The piece of legislation known as the FIRST STEP ACT has passed both the House and Senate.