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Despite First Step Act, some federal inmates remain in prison extra months
NBC News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Trump-era First Step Act has allowed thousands of nonviolent federal offenders to earn shortened...
Ron DeSantis Is Flat-out Wrong About the First Step Act
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyLast week, GOP presidential candidate...
Donald Trump used to brag about the First Step Act. Not any more.
Semafor via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe News The First Step Act, Donald Trump’s marquee criminal justice reform package, became a...
Staffing shortages and deficient training leave First Step Act floundering, federal prison employees...
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChronic staffing shortages in federal prisons and a lack of training have impeded implementation of...
Tech glitch botches federal prisons' rollout of update to Trump-era First Step Act
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoA new computer app created to automatically calculate inmates' time credits — used to determine...
Colleen Eren: Why Donald Trump Signed the FIRST STEP Act
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLex Villena My guest today is Colleen Eren, a sociologist at William Paterson University in my...
Trump’s vulnerability on crime may have been exposed in Fox interview
The Hill via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhen then-President Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December 2018, he hailed it as “an...
Erie 'drug kingpin' pleads with judge to end 7-year wait and rule on cutting life sentence
Gannett via AOL· 5 months agoThe two convicted Erie drug kingpins are linked in infamy and in hope. They remain the only drug...
Trump stumbles when Fox host tells him his plan to execute drug offenders would include people he...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDonald Trump issued pardons and commuted dozens of sentences for people incarcerated for drug crimes...
The word ‘and’ could land criminal defendants with longer sentences thanks to Supreme Court ruling
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCourt interpretted the “safety valve” provision of the First Step Act to mean defendants need to...