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Sunny Balwani Lost His Final Appeal as Elizabeth Holmes's Sentence Kept Shrinking
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https://nile1.com/sunny-balwani-lost-his-final-appeal-as-elizabeth-holmess-sentence-kept-shrinking/
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#elizabethHolmes #elizabethHolmesSentenceReduction #firstStepAct #sunnyBalwani #
October 24, 2026 at 5:51 AM
DOJ is arguing that a man freed under Trump’s own First Step Act could be sent back to prison for decades after a Supreme Court ruling. Criminal justice reform has apparently discovered the undo button. #FirstStepAct
October 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
The failed war on drugs has ruined lives, broken up families and decimated communities.

Everyday Americans have been aggressively prosecuted, convicted and sentenced for nonviolent offenses.

Thank you President Biden for commuting thousands of these sentences.

#FirstStepAct
January 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Rutherford v. U.S. (@3rdCir): Whether courts may consider #FirstStepAct sentencing disparities as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). Circuit split on statutory interpretation. https://tinyurl.com/23u4vkkg
February 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In celebrating the sixth anniversary of that #law, the #firststepact, in December, #durbin noted that less than 10% of the 40k prisoners released under the law, many of them drug offenders, had been rearrested or jailed, far less than the typical #recidivism rate.

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April 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 The Government Accountability Office flagged flaws in DOJ’s prison risk assessment tool PATTERN. The Bureau of Prisons uses PATTERN to assess recidivism risk, guiding programming and compliance with the First Step Act of 2018. #CriminalJustice #FirstStepAct
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February 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
US v Duffey: #5thCir, after #SCOTUS reversal, remands for resentencing in light #SCOTUS holding that more lenient #FirstStepAct penalties apply to defendants resentenced after its enactment #criminallaw #sentencing #appellatesky #lawsky baffc.net/3JpJlFt
August 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Criminal Justice Reform Is Health Care Reform

Incarceration often worsens pre-existing health issues & creates new ones due to poor healthcare in prisons and the stress of confinement.

#FirstStepAct #healthcare #prisons #politics

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January 16, 2024 at 1:13 PM
During his first Administration, POTUS-elect signed the #FirstStepAct for sentencing reform. Commonsense #CJReform can and should be a bipartisan priority. I hope that states follow the federal government's lead. (h/t NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
LDF Applauds President Biden’s Historic Clemency Announcement for People Incarcerated on Non-Violent Drug Offenses
Today, President Biden commuted the sentences of thousands of people incarcerated under racially disparate sentencing schemes, including those resulting from the War on Drugs, and many more who are se
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January 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was really great to see the whole #FirstStepAct crew together again last night in DC! Here is me with my friend Alice Marie Johnson
December 6, 2023 at 11:30 PM
When the #FirstStepAct was being debated, we (JLUSA) opposed it. For many reasons: who'd benefit the most, implementation foresight, resource constraints.

Peter Navarro isn't the face of incarceration. But he's right: Implement. The. Law. Even though it's flawed policy—as is now being exposed.
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February 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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