To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-929
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2021-02-08
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging

Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Criminal procedure and sentencing

Detention of persons
Latest action: action_date: 2021-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> This bill modifies the eligibility criteria for an elderly offender to qualify for early release from prison and placement in home detention. </p> <p>Specifically, it reduces the amount of a prison term an elderly offender must serve by the amount of good time credits earned by the offender. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 929 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 8, 2021 Mr. Deutch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.

1. Elderly for certain nonviolent offenders Section 231(g)(5)(A)(ii) of the Second Chance Act of 2007 ( 34 U.S.C. 60541(g)(5)(A)(ii) ) is amended by striking to which the offender was sentenced and inserting reduced by any credit toward the service of the prisoner’s sentence awarded under section 3624(b) of title 18, United States Code .