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SENTENCING COMMISSION HOLDS GUIDELINE RETROACTIVITY HEARING
At a hearing last week, the US Sentencing Commission heard from prosecutors, public defenders, and advocates for and against making some of the proposed Guideline changes that will become effective in November retroactive.
The Federal Defender Sentencing Guideline Committee made the case bluntly: “If ever there has ever been a time for the Commission to make retroactive guideline amendments, it is now. The reality is simple, indisputable, and unacceptable: the [BOP] is unable to humanely and safely hold the people in its custody… The BOP is in the midst of multiple, self-described crises, which are decades in the making and from which the BOP has neither the plan nor the means to escape.”A retroactivity decision will come next month.
US Sentencing Commission, Public Hearing on Retroactivity (July 16, 2025)
Federal Public Defenders, Comment on Possible Retroactive Application (July 16, 2025)
~ Thomas L. Root
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