...Colette Peters Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters spoke at the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit on October 17, 2023. Transcribed remarks include the Bureau of Prisons’ alignment with the criminal legal reform community in thinking differently about the experience of incarceration...

... federal compassionate release. No longer does the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have a stranglehold over who quali es for release; federal judges today have a co-equal role. As a result, judges across the country have released thousands more individuals than were released in the pre-FSA era, furthering Congress...

...Stephen R. Sady As the Sentencing Commission revives after years without a quorum, a top priority should be to address a statutory duty that has been neglected since the Commission’s inception: the mandatory obligation under 28 U.S.C. § 994(g) to make recommendations regarding the Bureau of Prisons...

...Scott Anders; Jay Whetzel The men and women leaving federal prison continue to reoffend at an unacceptably high rate. The authors here argue that such outcomes are unlikely to improve due to a host of structural, bureaucratic, and cultural differences between the federal Bureau of Prisons...

.... While the Act certainly expands access to compassionate release, it fails to do so generously. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to craft and preserve implementation guidelines that render compassionate release policies ineffective. The Act also revives the Second Chance Act of 2007 by providing...

... for the respective judgments of state and federal courts. In implementing the SRA, the Bureau of Prisons has interpreted statutes to, in effect, assert federal supremacy over state judgments, claiming the authority to execute a sentence as consecutive even where the federal judgment is silent on the issue...