“A bill to expand eligibility for and provide judicial review for the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program, and to make other technical corrections.”
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This section revises the Bureau of Prisons authority under the Second Chance Act of 2007 to place certain elderly offenders (generally age 60 or older) and terminally ill offenders on home detention after serving a substantial portion of their sentence (i.e., §231(g)), as follows: (1) establishes a judicial review process allowing a court, upon defendant motion after exhausting administrative remedies or 30 days from requesting home detention, to reduce the imprisonment term and impose supervised release with a home detention condition for eligible offenders, considering 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors; (2) extends the authority through 2029 (from 2023) in subsections (g)(3) and (h); (3) expands ineligibility for offenders convicted of certain violent or serious offenses to explicitly include offenses under District of Columbia law; and (4) reduces the required service period for eligibility to 1/2 of the term of imprisonment minus good time credits under 18 U.S.C. 3624(b) (from 2/3 of the imposed term).
This section modifies the compassionate release statute by (1) expanding its applicability, notwithstanding any other law, to cases involving offenses committed before November 1, 1987; and (2) revising the administrative exhaustion requirement for defendant motions to permit filing on or after the earlier of full exhaustion of appeals of the Bureau of Prisons' failure to file a motion or expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the date the defendant submits a reduction request to the facility warden, regardless of the request's status (previously, after full exhaustion or lapse of 30 days from the warden's receipt of the request, whichever was earlier). (Compassionate release permits federal courts to reduce imposed prison terms upon finding extraordinary and compelling reasons or for eligible elderly prisoners, after considering 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors.)