The First Step Act is changing the way that federal prison systems treat prisoners. It increases opportunities for rehabilitation, shortens sentences, and enhances prisoners' rights. The law is a ...

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 01: Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by U.S. President Donald Trump (L) after serving 21 years in prison for cocaine trafficking, thanks the press during a ...

At a time when there are high costs of incarceration, the Bureau of Prisons is not sending non-US citizens to home confinement when they could. Instead they stay in expensive, broken down institutions ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, the individual who admitted to orchestrating the massive 2016 breach at cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, has announced his impending early release from incarceration. In a recent ...

The man behind one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists in history is already out of prison, and he says he has Donald Trump’s signature criminal justice law to thank. Ilya Lichtenstein, convicted in ...

Carl Anthony Knight, convicted in 1999 for running a crack cocaine ring, has been granted early termination of his supervised release. Knight, 54, was originally sentenced to life in prison but was ...

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean ...

Ilya Lichtenstein is coming home after serving time for the Bitfinex hack.