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1 Oversight Hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Implementation of the First Step Act 1 (2019)

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                          House Committee  on the Judiciary
                       United States House of Representatives


                              Statement for the Record
                   Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law


                 Oversight Hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons
                      and Implementation  of the First Step Act


                                  October 17, 2019


      The Brennan  Center for Justice at NYU  School of Law  thanks the House
      Committee on the Judiciary for conducting this oversight hearing. The First Step
      Act of 2018 (the Act) has already cut unnecessarily long federal drug sentences,
      however cautiously. It could also revolutionize the federal prison system by
      building a new rehabilitative infrastructure, helping to further reduce mass
      incarceration in the process. The Brennan Center - a nonpartisan law and policy
      institute that focuses on democracy and justice - supports both goals. We know
      that the members of this Committee, Republicans and Democrats alike, do as well.

      However, less than a year after its enactment, the Act's potential has already been
      limited by funding uncertainty and a misguided system for evaluating the risk level
      of people currently in federal prison. Both issues deserve the Committee's scrutiny.

      I.   The  First Step Act Lacks Regular, Adequate  Funding, and Will Fail
           Without  It.


Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
     120 Broadway, Suite 1750 New York, NY 10271

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