The First Step Act required that starting in 2020, the Attorney General generate an annual report on the Bureau of Prisons’ implementation of the various provisions of the law. The Attorney General has released its 2020 First Step Act Section 3634 Annual Report.
The 59 page report provide data such as:
• 70% of all BOP inmates are designated to facilities within 500 miles of their release residences;
• the BOP has transferred over 19,000 people to home confinement since last March;
• in 2020, one out of every four BOP inmates did not get any halfway house or home confinement prior to release
The Report found recidivism among people released under the First Step Act to be 11.3%, much less than the one-third or higher numbers usually cited.