S-1917 : Still Just a Bill
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Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017
This bill amends various provisions of law and sets forth new provisions:
- to reduce mandatory minimum prison terms for certain nonviolent repeat drug offenses;
- to establish a mandatory sentencing enhancement for a drug offense involving heroin or fentanyl;
- to broaden the existing safety valve to permit a sentence below the mandatory minimum for certain nonviolent, cooperative drug offenders with a limited criminal history;
- to create a new safety valve for certain nonviolent, cooperative defendants convicted of a high-level first-time or low-level repeat drug offense;
- to create new mandatory minimum prison terms, including for interstate domestic violence that results in a victim's death and for providing goods or services to terrorists;
- to make the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive to permit resentencing of a convicted crack cocaine offender sentenced before August 3, 2010;
- to require the Bureau of Prisons to expand recidivism reduction programs and productive activities to all eligible prisoners;
- to lengthen prerelease custody for prisoners who successfully complete such programs;
- to develop the Post-Sentencing Risk and Needs Assessment System;
- to create reentry demonstration projects in judicial districts;
- to require presentence investigation reports to include certain information such as substance abuse history, military service, and veteran status;
- to permit a court to reduce a life prison term imposed on a defendant convicted as an adult for an offense committed as a juvenile;
- to establish a process to seal and expunge certain records of juvenile nonviolent offenses;
- to prohibit juvenile solitary confinement, except in limited circumstances;
- to make permanent and modify eligibility for an elderly offender early release pilot program; and
- to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission.