Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was one of the main advocates for the First Step Act, non-partisan legislation meant to reduce prison populations. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been sending ...
Many federal inmates complete their sentences on home confinement for up to 6 months. Citing budget constraints, the BOP is cutting the program and making inmates stay in expensive, run-down ...
After being released from prison, ex-convicts often move into halfway houses. These institutes are meant to help reassimilate to life on the outside and provide necessary medical and educational ...