# U.S. Sentencing Commission makes 2023 guideline reforms retroactive

Date: 2023

On August 24, 2023, the bipartisan U.S. Sentencing Commission, chaired by federal judge Carlton W. Reeves, voted to apply retroactively its 2023 amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines. The changes curtailed 'status points' that added time for committing an offense while under supervision and granted a two-level reduction to certain defendants with no prior convictions. The Commission's own analysis estimated that tens of thousands of incarcerated people could become eligible for reduced sentences when the reductions took effect in February 2024.

## Drivers

- Supranational rule-of-law accountability pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-supranational-accountability-pressure

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