Though the bill itself has not been enacted, it has been explored and referred to the committee within the judiciary. Its main goals are to increase public safety, establish offender risk and needs assessments for a more effective and efficient system, and to implement a validated post-sentencing risk and needs assessment. As of January of this year, there have been multiple proposals for significant changes to the federal sentencing guidelines. These new proposals are intended to have an enormous impact on the thousands of inmates that currently reside within federal prison walls. One of the many changes from the recent proposals made include a new update on the two point federal sentence reduction for drug offenders, which have had retroactive effects. Due to this, many of the new motions have been proposed and are currently pending. Retroactivity would allow certain federal drug prisoners to request their prison sentence by two guideline
Though the bill itself has not been enacted, it has been explored and referred to the committee within the judiciary. Its main goals are to increase public safety, establish offender risk and needs assessments for a more effective and efficient system, and to implement a validated post-sentencing risk and needs assessment. As of January of this year, there have been multiple proposals for significant changes to the federal sentencing guidelines. These new proposals are intended to have an enormous impact on the thousands of inmates that currently reside within federal prison walls. One of the many changes from the recent proposals made include a new update on the two point federal sentence reduction for drug offenders, which have had retroactive effects. Due to this, many of the new motions have been proposed and are currently pending. Retroactivity would allow certain federal drug prisoners to request their prison sentence by two guideline