Bipartisan legislation to reform the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program and Compassionate Release from federal prisons – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Amid the COVID-19 public health pandemic, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, authors of the bipartisan First Step Act, introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program and compassionate release from federal prisons … Elderly offenders, the fastest-growing portion of the prison population, have…