Lets more elderly and sick prisoners serve sentences at home and clarifies compassionate release rules.
This bill would make it easier for certain elderly and terminally ill people in prison to serve their sentences at home. It would extend a pilot program, lower the time they need to serve before being eligible, and give them a way to ask a court for home detention. It also clarifies rules for compassionate release, including for older cases and how prisoners can ask for it.
Today, the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program has stricter eligibility, requires two-thirds of a sentence to be served, and does not offer a direct path for prisoners to ask a court for home detention. Compassionate release eligibility for offenses before November 1, 1987, is unclear, and the process for prisoners to ask for it is less defined. If this bill becomes law, the home detention program would be extended through 2029, require only one-half of a sentence to be served, and prisoners would gain a clear way to ask a court for home detention. Compassionate release would explicitly include offenses from before November 1, 1987, and prisoners would have a clearer 30-day timeline to file motions if the Bureau of Prisons doesn't respond.
S 3485 · 119th Congress · December 15, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10
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