Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The First Step Act ushered in much needed change to reduce our ...

It’s been just a few days since Donald Trump stepped into the Oval Office, bringing a vision for what he calls a ‘Golden Age’ for America. With this new chapter in leadership comes an opportunity for ...

At a time when there are high costs of incarceration, the Bureau of Prisons is not sending non-US citizens to home confinement when they could. Instead they stay in expensive, broken down institutions ...

The First Step Act is changing the way that federal prison systems treat prisoners. It increases opportunities for rehabilitation, shortens sentences, and enhances prisoners' rights. The law is a ...

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon appointed a former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito (who also served as a clerk to then-Judge Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit) to ...

The Trump-era First Step Act has allowed thousands of nonviolent federal offenders to leave prison sooner, but advocates say they have reviewed numerous instances of inmates remaining behind bars ...

President-elect Trump has been accused of countless things, but never of being predictable. Criminal justice policy is a case in point. Few could have anticipated that landmark prison reform stymied ...

In the fall of 2018, I stood in the White House as President Trump endorsed the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming federal sentencing and modernizing our outdated prison system. As a ...

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean ...

Robert Shipp, 46, is now a free man thanks to the "First Step Act." Robert Shipp has spent more than half his life in prison serving a mandatory minimum life sentence for a drug offense in 1993. As of ...