President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act (FSA) into law in December 2018, nearly five (5) years ago. While there are a number of benefits for many people in prison under the FSA, one of the most important is that prisoners can earn credits toward reducing their sentences or increasing the amount of that sentence that can be spent on home confinement. However, this last implementation step has been plagued with problems with interpretation of the law by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and a host of computer problems. Both have left prisoners and their families confused over one simple question, “When does my prison sentence end?”

See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2023/10/16/time-for-a-bureau-of-prisons-task-force-to-implement-the-first-step-act/?sh=2f854da84410