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Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017

Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Oct 4, 2017

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;

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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.

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Who introduced it

Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] · R–IA

Committees

  • Judiciary Committee
31 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

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  1. Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

  3. Introduced in Senate

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