WASHINGTON _ Sweeping changes to the federal prison system will allow tens of thousands of federal inmates to be released from prison over the next 10 years, but there's little data about who or where they are now.
The legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday makes big changes to the treatment and rehabilitation of low-level federal prisoners.
Qualifying inmates _ mostly people who have committed low-level drug offenses _ can earn credits to be released from prison early and serve the remainder of their sentence in home confinement or halfway houses if they participate in the plan's anti-recidivism programs such as job training, education and faith-based classes.
