The bill, which could immediately release 4,000 federal prisoners, is likely to be brought up for a vote early next weekDonald Trump on Friday promised to sign bipartisan prison reform legislation currently working its way through Congress that could free thousands of prisoners. I will sign it,” Trump said at an event the White House described as a prison reform summit. It is progress and it is the first step.”Kushner, who was tasked with criminal justice reform early on in the administration, also championed the appeal of incremental reform. He noted that for years the two reform issues – sentencing and prison – have been bound together and nothing has been passed. “The reason why this thing was stuck is because of sentencing reform, so we as an administration said let’s focus on prison reform,” Kushner said.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2018 18:42 UTC