Safer Detention Act of 2025

This bill changes a federal pilot program that lets certain older and terminally ill people in federal prison serve the rest of their sentence on home detention. It would let a defendant ask a court to reduce a prison term and replace it with supervised release and home detention after the defendant has used up Bureau of Prisons appeals or 30 days have passed since asking the warden. It would extend the program through 2029, include District of Columbia offenses, and lower the share of the sentence an elderly offender must serve from two-thirds to one-half, counting good-conduct credit. It would also allow compassionate release motions in cases involving offenses committed before November 1, 1987, and restate when a defendant may file such a motion.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Richard J. Durbin Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors