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 ...

WASHINGTON - Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters testifies as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz listens during the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Men who walk in the front door at First Step House of North County all have one thing in common: Alcohol. Inside, they find new hope. Volunteers who are recovering alcoholics ...

Five years ago this month, Donald Trump signed a major sentencing and prison reform bill into law. Known as the First Step Act, the law was wildly popular with Congress and the public, giving Trump a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed two bills aimed at overhauling Washington, DC’s age of criminal responsibility and lenient sentencing guidelines with bipartisan support. The DC CRIMES ...

For their dedication to helping so many men recover from alcohol addiction, the volunteers of First Step House of North County and board president Beky Pine received the ABC 10News Leadership Award ...