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Time Served Under the First Step Act: Reduction, Not Revolution
by Jo Ellen Knott
The First Step Act (“FSA”), a 2018 law designed to curb recidivism among formerly incarcerated individuals on the federal level, is showing modest but positive results in reducing the amount of time people serve in the federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) system.
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