Justice in Sentencing for Survivors Act of 2025

This bill would let federal courts give a sentence below the legal minimum to a "victim offender," meaning a person who experienced sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, domestic violence, or severe trafficking that was a significant contributing factor in their crime, and who has not been convicted of a sex offense. Courts could also choose probation, community confinement, or both instead of prison. A person could qualify even if the abuse caused no physical injury, was short-term, did not happen at the time of the crime, or the crime was against someone other than the abuser. People already convicted or sentenced could ask to be resentenced, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission would have to add this abuse as a sentencing factor in its guidelines.

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Sponsors

• Joseph D. Morelle Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors