National Prison and Sentencing Consultants
Last Thursday, December 5, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced seven prison closures.
Effective January 1, 2025 BOP to incentivize FSA participation.
New Data on Compassionate Releases Available.
A Report by an Appointed Special Master finds conditions at FCI Dublin are "unconscionable."
USSC addresses Acquitted Conduct in the 2024 Proposed Amendments
On August 24, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission will vote to determine with certain Amendments to the United States Sentencing Guideli...
On July 19, 2023 the United States Sentencing Commission will hold a public hearing on the possible retroactive application of certain portions of...
On January 12, 2023, The United States Sentencing Commission promulgated preliminary proposed amendments to the United States Sentencing Guideline...
After much delay, (4 years worth) the BOP claims that it is finally in a position to have First Step Act (FSA) credits applied to all inmates. In ...
The enactment of the First Step Act (FSA) in 2018, opened new and available avenues for federal inmates to seek a compassionate release from federa...
On January 13, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Prisons published new regulations concerning implementation of the First Step Act’s Earned Time Credits....
New Department of Justice interpretation of the CARES Act that those federal inmates released to Home Confinement will NOT have to be returned to Prison.
As many are aware, the CARES Act permitted the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer certain inmates who had documented COVID-19 related co-morbid...
UPDATE: January 4, 2022: ON DECEMBER 21, 2021, THE DOJ ANNOUNCED THAT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS NEED NOT RECALL ALL THOSE ON HOME CONFINEMENT ...
Needless to say, with the COVID-19 sweeping the nation as well as federal prisons, in the last 10 months, we have been called on to assist many inm...
As a result of several directives from Attorney General Barr, the BOP has placed a record number of federal inmates on home confinement as a resul...
U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), both members of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced a bill aimed at the large fed...
On March 26, 2020 Attorney General Barr Issued a directive to the Bureau of Prisons directing it to utilize Home Confinement as one of the methods...
On Friday March 13, 2020, the Bureau of Federal Prisons took its first steps to protect federal inmates from the coronavirus (COVID-19). It has ba...
At long last, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has announced the programs to be utilized to allow eligible federal inmates to receive earned time cre...
On January 15, 2020 the Justice Department issued a press release summarizing the developments on the implementation of the First Step Act and its...
As of October 31, 2019 this post has been updated to note that Taft will NOT be closing as initially reported. After the intervention of Congress...
As many familiar with our federal sentencing scheme are aware, many federal defendants who proceed to trial and are acquitted of some but not all ...
In a decision by the Supreme Court yesterday, June 25, 2019, the Court declared a particular provision of the supervised release revocation proces...
Many terminally ill federal inmates being released under the First Step Act.
National Prison and Sentencing Consultants has heard many rumors from federal inmates and others that have been circulating relating to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ closing certain federal prison camps.
As many who follow our website and blogs know, the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed the First Step Act on May 22, 2018 and presented it to the Senate the day after.
Today the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions that can have a significant impact on a large number of current federal inmates. In Hug...
We at NPSC have already received many inquiries about the impact of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision Sessions v. Dimaya.......
National Prison and Sentencing Consultants (NPSC) has heard many rumors from federal inmates and others that have been circulating relating to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ closing certain federal prison camps.....
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument on two cases that can have a significant impact on a large number of current federal inmates.
As National Prison & Sentencing Consultants reported last November, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been quietly terminating contracts with ...
As many in the federal prison community are aware, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been quietly terminating contracts with certain Residential Re-entry Centers, commonly known as Halfway Houses.
As reported here , the Trump administration has been quietly cutting funding for or closing 16 federal Residential Reentry Centers, commonly refer...
