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119-s-3485119th Congress

Safer Detention Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

Introduced

Summary

Expands access to home detention and adds a judicial-review path for elderly and terminally ill federal prisoners. This bill would expand who can seek supervised-release home detention, change how qualifying time is calculated, and extend the pilot program timeline.

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  • Elderly offenders and terminally ill inmates could ask a court to reduce an imposed prison term and replace the unserved portion with supervised release under home detention after the court considers the factors in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a). The judicial-review option is available once administrative appeals are exhausted or 30 days after the inmate submits a request to the warden.
  • The formula for how much of a sentence must be served before home detention is changed to one-half of the term minus any credits under 18 U.S.C. 3624(b), replacing a prior two-thirds rule. The bill also adds offenses under District of Columbia law to the lists that affect those calculations.
  • The scope of home-detention-related provisions in the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program is extended through 2029, and the bill makes targeted technical corrections to compassionate release provisions.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Compassionate release for pre-1987 cases

If enacted, this bill would say that a "case" includes offenses committed before November 1, 1987 for purposes of compassionate release. It would also require motions under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) to be filed only after the earlier of fully exhausting administrative appeals of a BOP failure to bring a motion or after 30 days from asking the warden for a sentence reduction.

More home detention for eligible prisoners

If enacted, this bill would let courts shorten a prison term and replace the unserved portion with supervised release and home detention for eligible elderly or terminally ill prisoners. A court could do this after a defendant files a motion and the court considers the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) sentencing factors. The motion may be filed after the earlier of full exhaustion of administrative appeals of a Bureau of Prisons failure to place the defendant on home detention or 30 days after the defendant asks the facility warden for home detention. The bill also would count District of Columbia offenses for certain home-detention rules, change the minimum served-time threshold from two-thirds to one-half of the term minus any credits under 18 U.S.C. 3624(b), and extend the named home-detention authorities through 2029.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

IL • D

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]

    IA • R

    Sponsored 12/15/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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