The First Step Act, short for Formerly Incarcerated Reenter ... people are held on a typical day in America. Just look at this chart from the Prison Policy Initiative, which shows both local ...

“The First Step Act gives nonviolent offenders the chance ... people are held on a typical day in America. Just look at this chart from the Prison Policy Initiative, which shows both local ...

For months, advocates and lawmakers have worked together to craft a criminal justice reform bill, known as the FIRST STEP Act, that enjoys broad support from the White House and members of Congress in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. In addition to adjusting sentencing laws for non-violent ...

They then will describe how the system is broken, and layout plans to fix it. The First Step Act is sure to be front and center in those plans. Whether the candidates helped usher the legislation ...

But the FIRST STEP Act is just that: a first step that will, among other things, give judges more leeway at sentencing and adjust mandatory minimums for some crack cocaine charges. This effort ...

Cases where justice may have been administered too harshly are why presidential pardons exist, a scalpel to the blunt instrument of the First Step act proposed by Congress. How would First Step ...

Four years ago this week, just before Christmas, both parties came together for a holiday miracle: passing the First Step Act, the most significant change to our justice system in decades.

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 ...

The First Step Act dismantled draconian practices that most Americans, if they knew about them, would be horrified to believe ever existed. Before the Act, it was legal—and common—for pregnant ...

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 ...

to hold a vote on the First Step Act, a move the senator was reluctant to make because it divided the Republican caucus. The legislation was among the furthest reaching for federal prison policy ...