nosed with a mental illness, mental disorder, or 
mental health condition. 
‘‘(C) There shall be a presumption in favor 
of direct release to home confinement unless the 
Director of the Bureau of Prisons makes spe-
cific findings in writing that the resources pro-
vided by a community correction center are nec-
essary for the prisoner to adjust and prepare 
for the reentry into the community and those 
resources cannot be provided if the prisoner is 
in home confinement. 
‘‘(D) A prisoner placed on home confine-
ment may not be ordered to pay the cost of 
electronic monitoring.’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) EARLY RELEASE ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN 
YOUTH.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Bureau of Prisons 
shall release from confinement, subject to a period 
of prerelease custody under subsection (c), a youth 
who has served one half or more of that offender’s 
term of imprisonment (including any consecutive 
term or terms of imprisonment) if that youth— 
‘‘(A) is serving a sentence for a nonviolent 
offense; and 
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‘‘(B) has not engaged in any violation of 
institutional disciplinary regulations involving 
violent conduct in the last 2 years. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘youth’ means an individual 
who was 21 years of age or younger at the time 
the criminal offense occurred for which the indi-
vidual is serving a term of imprisonment; and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘nonviolent offense’ means a 
Federal criminal offense that is not— 
‘‘(i) a crime of violence; or 
‘‘(ii) a sex offense (as that term is de-
fined in section 111 of the Sex Offender 
Registration and Notification Act).’’. 
SEC. 
4. 
SUPERVISED 
RELEASE 
CONSIDERATION 
FOR 
YOUTH. 
(a) SUPERVISED
RELEASE
OF
YOUTH.—Section 
3582(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(1); 
(2) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(2); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(3) in the case of a youth serving a sentence 
of incarceration, after the youth (as defined in sec-
tion 3581) has served at least 20 years, a court, 
upon motion of the Director of the Bureau of Pris-
ons, the sentencing court, the youth or the counsel 
for the youth, or on its own motion, may reduce the 
term of imprisonment (and may impose a term of 
supervised release with or without conditions that 
does not exceed the unserved portion of the original 
term of imprisonment), after considering the factors 
set forth in section 3553(a) to the extent that they 
are applicable, if— 
‘‘(A) the court finds on the record that a 
reduction is warranted based on extraordinary 
and compelling reasons, including the youth’s 
rehabilitation efforts, such as participation in 
counseling, education, work skills training, and 
prison employment, and mitigating facts relat-
ing to the life circumstances of the youth at the 
time of the commission of the offense; and 
‘‘(B) the Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
has, on its own or in response to the court, 
made a determination that the youth is not a 
danger to the safety of any other person or the 
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community, 
as 
provided 
under 
section 
3142(g).’’. 
(b) MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE.—Section 3581 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(c) MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE.—In the case of 
a youth convicted of an offense that carries a mandatory 
term of life imprisonment, the sentencing court shall treat 
the life sentence as discretionary and consider the age of 
the youth in determining the appropriate sentence. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘youth’ 
means an individual who was 21 years of age or younger 
at the time of the commission of the criminal offense for 
which the individual is being sentenced or is serving a 
term of imprisonment.’’. 
SEC. 5. SMARTER PROBATION FOR YOUTH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3565 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘If’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Except as provided in subsection (d), if’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) SPECIAL RULE FOR TECHNICAL VIOLATIONS.— 
If the violation of a condition is solely technical, and not 
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a conviction of a criminal offense, then the maximum pun-
ishment that can be imposed is not more than— 
‘‘(1) 30 days imprisonment if the violation is 
the first violation during the defendant’s period of 
probation; 
‘‘(2) 60 days imprisonment if the violation is a 
second violation during the defendant’s period of 
probation; or 
‘‘(3) 90 days imprisonment if the violation is a 
third or subsequent violation during the defendant’s 
period of probation.’’. 
(b) DIRECTIVE
TO
THE
UNITED
STATES
SEN-
TENCING COMMISSION.—Pursuant to its authority under 
section 994 of title 28, United States Code, the United 
States Sentencing Commission shall review and, if appro-
priate, amend the Federal sentencing guidelines and policy 
statements applicable to the revocation of probation and 
supervised release under section 3565 of title 18, United 
States Code, as amended by this Act. 
SEC. 6. SPECIALIZED HOUSING AND PROGRAMS FOR 
YOUTH. 
Section 4042(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (D) as para-
graph (6) and within that paragraph as so redesig-
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