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Bill Title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide an alternate release date for certain nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.

What is it?:
This bill seeks to reduce the number of prisoners in federal prison and ensuring that incarceration is fair. It would do so by offering a new way for nonviolent offenders to be released.

Specifically, this bill would release any inmate that had served half of their sentence or more, providing that they:

Are at least 45 years old;
Had never been convicted of a violent crime;
Were not violent while incarcerated.

Sponsored by: Representative Sheila Jackson Lee - https://www.countable.us/legislators/...

Transcript:

With prison overcrowding becoming a serious concern across the country, lawmakers are rethinking incarceration. This bill hopes to reduce federal prison populations by releasing non-violent inmates. If passed, any prisoner who has served at least half of their sentence could be released if they meet three requirements: they’re at least 45 years old, have never been convicted of a violent crime, and were not violent while in prison.

So, should federal prisons release non-violent inmates?

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