First Step Act

"Joey Crack" Francisco, was freed from a life sentence for a drug conviction under the Kushner-Koch "First Step Act" federal drug-sentencing reform only to go on to allegedly brutally stab a man to death in Rhode Island.

59 homicide/aggravated assault convicts and 239 rapists and sex offenders have been released so far this year. The First Step law turns over the power to release prisoners to administrators at the Bureau of Prisons that can release whoever they want to.

Twenty violent crimes and serious drug crimes are included in the program that include trafficking in cocaine and methamphetamine, strangling a spouse or intimate partner, street-gang felonies, assault with intent to commit rape or sexual abuse, and similar crimes.