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BOP is Closing Several FPC and FCI Prison Facilities
The Bureau of Prisons is ‘deactivating’ its Duluth Federal Prison Camp. “The FBOP faces several significant challenges, including a critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure,...
First Step Act Earned Time Credits in Brief
FSA credits sheet (May 2024) – accurate reference regarding the application of FSA credits First Step Act of 2018: Earned Time Credits FSA Time...
The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court: BOP Custody / Current Status of BOP / Early Release & Reentry: Washington DC, 2/15/24
Edward Bennett Williams – storied and stellar in career and remembrance – holding intelligent and prestigious gatherings discussing relevant issues and seeking pathways to...
The Latest First Step Act (FSA) Updates Relevant to Note
BOP policy statement/change notice regarding FSA implementations highlighting the applicability now for inmates with outstanding detainers to have eligibility in accruing program credits. BOP...
First Step Act (FSA) Recent Changes/Updates from DOJ-BOP / Updated DOJ-BOP Home Confinement Guidance Memo / Presidential End to Covid Emergency Status in May
Recent changes to the FSA program statement have updated various aspects of time credit application procedures – as seen in DOJ/BOP’s recent notice regarding...
Notable Justice Advocacy Group Firm Expertise Highlight
The success of taking incarceration’s lessons learned and rebuilding a constructive life takes a unique strength, diligence, and perseverance. What Ivy has done has...
Added Clarification of First Step Act Early Release Eligibility and Time Credit Application
As follow-up to the Department of Justice 1/13/22 release (noted in previous FSA update), the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts’ 1/31/22 supplemental memorandum provides...
DOJ-BOP Formally Implementing ‘First Step Act’ Time Credits: Codifying Rules and Procedures for Earning and Application
BOP transferring inmates from Federal facilities to pre-release and early supervised release – formalizing how FSA time credits are applied – 10 to 15...
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...
Clients Who Have Received Clemency through the Trump Administration
The Justice Advocacy Group notes a number of its clients have received pardons and commutations from the Trump Administration. They are listed below in...