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To expand eligibility for and provide judicial review for the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program, and to make other technical corrections.
Summary
The bill expands the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program and adds judicial review provisions allowing judges to reduce sentences and substitute home detention for eligible elderly or terminally ill offenders. The bill lowers the eligibility threshold from requiring two-thirds of a sentence to be served to requiring one-half of a sentence to be served. The bill establishes a 30-day period after submitting a request to the prison warden, after which inmates can petition the court for sentence reduction if the Bureau of Prisons has not acted. The bill also extends the pilot program through 2029 and makes technical corrections to compassionate release provisions, allowing courts to consider sentence reductions for cases involving older offenses and streamlining the request process.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Richard J. Durbin’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- SIMMONS HANLY CONROY LLC $19,133
- THE GORI LAW FIRM $18,300
- CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES PC $17,750
- POWER ROGERS & SMITH LLP $17,300
- MAUNE RAICHLE HARTLEY FRENCH & MUDD $14,638
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Richard J. Durbin → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Dec 15, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S8738) · senate
- Dec 15, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 15, 2025
Mr. Durbin (for himself and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To expand eligibility for and provide judicial review for the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program, and to make other technical corrections.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Safer Detention Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. HOME DETENTION FOR CERTAIN ELDERLY NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS.
Section 231 of the Second Chance Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60541) is amended—
(1) in subsection (g)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following:
“(D) Judicial review.—
“(i) In general.—Upon motion of a defendant, on or after the date described in clause (ii), a court may reduce an imposed term of imprisonment of the defendant and substitute a term of supervised release with the condition of home detention for the unserved portion of the original term of imprisonment, after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a) of title 18, United States Code, if the court finds the defendant is an eligible elderly offender or eligible terminally ill offender.
“(ii) Date described.—The date described in this clause is the earlier of—
“(I) the date on which the defendant fully exhausts all administrative rights to appeal a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to place the defendant on home detention; or
“(II) the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the defendant submits to the warden of the facility in which the defendant is imprisoned a request for placement of the defendant on home detention, regardless of the status of the request.”;
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking “through 2023” and inserting “through 2029”; and
(C) in paragraph (5)—
(i) in subparagraph (A)(ii)—
(I) by inserting “, including offenses under the laws of the District of Columbia,” after “offense or offenses”; and
(II) by striking “\2/3\ of the term of imprisonment to which the offender was sentenced” and inserting “\1/2\ of the term of imprisonment reduced by any credit toward the service of the offender’s sentence awarded under section 3624(b) of title 18, United States Code”; and
(ii) in subparagraph (D)(i), by inserting “, including offenses under the laws of the District of Columbia,” after “offense or offenses”; and
(2) in subsection (h), by striking “through 2023” and inserting “through 2029”.
SEC. 3. COMPASSIONATE RELEASE TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
Section 3582 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (c)(1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting after “case” the following: “, including, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any case involving an offense committed before November 1, 1987”; and
(B) in subparagraph (A)—
(i) by inserting “on or after the date described in subsection (d),” after “upon motion of the defendant”; and
(ii) by striking “after the defendant has fully exhausted all administrative rights to appeal a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to bring a motion on the defendant’s behalf or the lapse of 30 days from the receipt of such a request by the warden of the defendant’s facility, whichever is earlier,”;
(2) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections
(e) and (f), respectively; and
(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Date Described.—For purposes of subsection (c)(1)(A), the date described in this subsection is the earlier of—
“(1) the date on which the defendant fully exhausts all administrative rights to appeal a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to bring a motion on the defendant’s behalf; or
“(2) the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the defendant submits a request for a reduction in sentence to the warden of the facility in which the defendant is imprisoned, regardless of the status of the request.”. <all>
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