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Supreme Court case puts the First Step Act under scrutiny

The Supreme Court heard a case involving the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform law passed in 2018 aimed at improving conditions in federal prisons and reducing recidivism.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, about how the law has worked.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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