What the Crime Bill does:
Send up to 4,000 prisoners home by increasing the amount of time inmates can cut off of their sentences due to good behavior....
Send up to 4,000 prisoners home by increasing the amount of time inmates can cut off of their sentences due to good behavior....
Allow more male and female inmates to serve time in house arrest or halfway homes instead of prison cells, with exceptions for high-risk inmates....
Require that prisoners be placed within 500 miles of family.....
Outlaw shackling during child birth. (Democrats must have snuck this one in without the Women Hating Conservatives noticing)...
Reduce the mandatory penalty from life to 25 years for a third conviction of certain drug offenses, and from 25 to 15 years for a second conviction....
Give judges more discretion in giving less than the mandatory minimum for certain low-level crimes. <end>
