Latest News
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...
Further Updated News Regarding DOJ/BOP Covid-19 Related Emergency Home Confinements
Discretion to Continue the Home-Confinement Placements of Federal Prisoners After the COVID-19 Emergency: “This Office concluded in January 2021 that, when the COVID-19 emergency...
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...
Updated News Regarding DOJ/BOP’s Covid-19 Related Emergency Home Confinements
In January of this year the Attorney General’s Deputy Counsel offered current perspective and potential resolution regarding CARES Act authority to BOP and home...
Recent BOP/DOJ and Congressional Updating Regarding First Step Act [FSA]
Two years after enactment of the First Step Act (12/21/18), the Attorney General recently submitted a progress summary reviewing FSA implementation, the status of...
Updated BOP Response to Covid-19
BOP COVID-19 Modified Operations Plan March 2020...
Further FSA Update
Regarding the most recent FSA updates – two issues are initially worth comment: * For earned time credits FSA/BOP note completed ‘days’ of programming...
January 2020 Updates to First Step Act – Earned Credits Programming Still in Development and Not Fully Implemented [Could be Another Year or Two]
As of January 15th 2020 – all BOP inmates will receive assignment for participation in evidence-based recidivism reduction (EBRR) programs and productive activities. The...