This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.
Specifically, it does the following:
requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
limits the use of pretrial detention; and
modifies supervised release, including to suspend the request for detention and imprisonment as a sanction for a violation of probation, supervised release, or parole.
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May 7, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.