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Prison Tips: Earning Early Release Under the First Step Act
Federal sentencing and prison experts Maureen Baird, Mark H. Allenbaugh, and Alan Ellis with The Law Offices of Alan Ellis evaluate the effectiveness of the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill passed in 2018. They say that earned time credits, which allow for early release for low-level offenders, need to be utilized more in light of the ongoing pandemic and high numbers of Covid-19 deaths in federal prisons.
Click here to read the entire article published in Bloomberg Insights on March 22, 2022.
