First Step Act

Extracted Attributes

• Enacted By

  115th United States Congress

• Date Enacted

  2018-12-21

• Jurisdiction

  United States

• Official Name

  Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act

• Primary Objective

  Reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws, reducing recidivism, and expanding rehabilitation and earned time credits

• Public Law Number

  Public Law 115-391

Timeline

• Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin introduce a revised version of the First Step Act (S. 3747) incorporating the reauthorization of the Second Chance Act of 2007. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018-12-12

• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell substitutes the text of the First Step Act into legislative vehicle S. 756 to advance the bill to a final vote. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018-12-13

• President Donald Trump signs the First Step Act (P.L. 115-391) into United States federal law. (Source: NACDL - The First Step Act)

  2018-12-21

First Step Act

The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws in order to reduce recidivism, decreasing the federal inmate population, and maintaining public safety.

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• First Step Act - Wikipedia

  | | | --- | | | This article is part of a series about Donald Trump | Donald Trump's signature Seal of the President of the United States The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws in order to reduce recidivism, decreasing the federal inmate population, and maintaining public safety. ## Procedural history [...] Section 404 applies the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010—which, among other things, reduced the discrepancy between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine convictions—retroactively. Under the First Step Act, prisoners who committed offenses "covered" by the Fair Sentencing Act are permitted to petition a court directly to reconsider their sentence (after certain administrative steps are satisfied). Prior to this law, the Bureau of Prisons acted as the "gatekeeper" of prisoner petitions, and prisoners were not able to make motions to federal courts directly for back-end sentencing review. ### Title V [...] On December 12, Senator Grassley (R-IA), along with cosponsor Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), introduced a revised version of S. 3649 as S. 3747, which preserved S. 3649's content and added an additional title reauthorizing and amending the Second Chance Act of 2007. In an unusual procedural move, and after reversing his statement that he would not proceed on a vote until 2019, the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on December 13, 2018, substituted the content of The First Step Act (S. 3747) into a S. 756—a substantively unrelated bill called the Save Our Seas Act, which was originally introduced by Senator Dan Sullivan "Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)") (R-AK) on March 29, 2017—in order to solicit final amendments and bring the matter to a vote. (Due to this procedural move—known as

• NACDL - The First Step Act

  # The First Step Act The First Step Act (P.L. 115-391 756) was signed into law on December 21, 2018. The Act is a federal criminal justice reform bill that changes many harsh federal sentencing laws. The Act also expands compassionate release for qualifying federal inmates and offers current federal inmates rehabilitative programming and the possibility for early release from prison. [...] The First Step Act (P.L. 115-391 756) was signed into law on December 21, 2018. The Act is a federal criminal justice reform bill that changes many harsh federal sentencing laws. The Act also expands compassionate release for qualifying federal inmates and offers current federal inmates rehabilitative programming and the possibility for early release from prison. " name="description"> NACDL - The First Step Act Skip to Content # NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers NACDL logo # The First Step Act

• Corrections Trend: First Step Act: Federal Prison Reform & Resources

  # First Step Act The First Step Act is a bipartisan criminal justice reform law enacted in December, 2018. It aims to improve federal prison conditions, reduce recidivism, and provide sentencing reforms for qualifying nonviolent offenders. The act represents a shift towards a more rehabilitative and fair approach in the federal prison system, emphasizing second chances for eligible inmates while maintaining public safety. The First Step Act of 2018: An Overview | Congress.gov | Library of Congress Passed in 2018, the First Step Act was designed to reduce reoffending among people leaving federal prisons. Provisions of the First Step Act are summarized in this Congressional Research Service brief.

• BOP: First Step Act Overview

  The First Step Act requires the Attorney General to develop a risk and needs assessment system to be used by BOP to assess the recidivism risk and criminogenic needs of all federal prisoners and to place prisoners in recidivism reducing programs and productive activities to address their needs and reduce this risk. Under the act, the system provides guidance on the type, amount, and intensity of recidivism reduction programming and productive activities to which each prisoner is assigned, including information on which programs prisoners should participate in based on their criminogenic needs. The system also provides guidance on how to group, to the extent practicable, prisoners with similar risk levels together in recidivism reduction programming and housing assignments. [...] ### Correctional Reforms The First Step Act (FSA) includes a series of other criminal justice-related provisions. These provisions include a prohibition on the use of restraints on pregnant inmates in the custody of BOP and the U.S. Marshals Service. It also includes a requirement for the BOP to provide tampons and sanitary napkins that meet industry standards to prisoners for free and in a quantity that meets the healthcare needs of each prisoner. (Note that BOP policy previously addressed these requirements.)

• The First Step Act: Ending Mass Incarceration in Federal Prisons – The Sentencing Project

  + Download PDF In 2018, Congress passed and then-President Donald Trump signed into law the bipartisan First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill designed to promote rehabilitation, lower recidivism, and reduce excessive sentences in the federal prison system. Lawmakers and advocates across both political parties supported the bill as a necessary step to address some of the punitive excesses of the 1980s and 1990s.1 [...] The First Step Act includes a range of sentencing reforms which made the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive,2 enhanced judicial discretion, created earned time credits, increased good time credits, reduced certain mandatory minimum sentences, and expanded the safety valve that allows persons with minor prior convictions to serve less time than previously mandated. [...] The First Step Act expanded the BOP’s authority to place individuals in home confinement by reauthorizing and expanding a pilot program for elderly individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses and terminally ill individuals. The Act also encouraged the BOP to make greater use of home confinement by requiring the BOP, to the extent practicable, to place individuals with lower risk levels and lower needs on home confinement for the maximum amount of time permitted under under Section 3624(c)(2), which authorizes home confinement for 10% of the term of imprisonment or six months, whichever is shorter. This authority was temporarily expanded with the passage of the CARES Act in March 2020, which authorized the Attorney General to expand eligibility in order to reduce spread of COVID-19 in

• Country

  United States

• Instance Of

  Q49371