Congressional digest : criminal justice reform : prosecution, incarceration, and prisoner reentry into society.
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Digest, Inc., c1922-Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cmISSN:- 0010-5899
- JK1 .C65
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U.S. Prison System Timeline -- U.S. Criminal Justice System -- U.S. Correctional Populations -- Major Provisions of the First Step Act -- Legislative Background on Criminal Justice Reform -- Wolf Protections -- Fetal Tissue Research -- Doctors and Gun Violence -- Sports Betting -- Should Congress pass the FIRST STEP act to reform the nation's prison and sentencing laws? PROs: Honorable Bob Goodlatte -- Honorable Bobby Scott -- Honorable Doug Collins -- Honorable Hakeem Jeffries -- #cut50; CONs: Honorable Jerrold Nadler -- Honorable Diana DeGette -- Honorable Pramila Jayapal -- Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee -- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 2.3 million people are currently in Federal, State, or local prisons and jails. Close to 7 million American adults are in the correctional system, including those on parole or probation or in jail.
Overall, since the 1980s, the Federal prison population — the number of inmates under the supervision of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) — has experienced explosive growth, increasing by approximately 5,900 inmates annually. Some of this growth is attributable to changes in Federal criminal justice policy. These include increasing the number of Federal offenses subject to mandatory minimum sentences, making more crimes Federal offenses, and eliminating parole for Federal defendants…