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 ...

The First Step Act allowed low-risk federal prisoners to earn time credits they could use at the end of their prison sentences in either a halfway house or at home on electronic monitoring.

Trump, who campaigned on law and order, was preparing to sign the First Step Act, one of the biggest criminal justice reform legislative bills in U.S. history. “This is the first step ...