Mother Jones: Trump's One Real Bipartisan Win Is Already Turning Into a Mess

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Lawmakers speaking in private to advocacy groups were reportedly clear that the credits would be recalculated right away—in order to take immediate effect—according to activists I spoke with who were involved in discussions about the bill on Capitol Hill and at the White House leading up to its passage. “There’s no doubt what the intent was,” says Jessica Jackson Sloan, national director of #cut50, an organization that seeks to reduce the prison population and that lobbied hard for the bill. “This stuff was debated ad nauseam publicly on the floor of the Senate,” adds Holly Harris, executive director of the Justice Action Network. “Legislative intent is very clear.”

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/02/first-step-act-trump-confusion-good-time-credits/