Safer Detention Act of 2025

The Safer Detention Act of 2025 significantly amends the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program by expanding eligibility and introducing a mechanism for judicial review. It allows courts to reduce an offender's term of imprisonment and substitute it with supervised release under home detention for eligible elderly or terminally ill offenders . This judicial review can be initiated after administrative appeals are exhausted or 30 days after a request is submitted to the warden, whichever comes first. Furthermore, the bill extends the pilot program's duration through 2029 and broadens eligibility by including offenses under District of Columbia laws. It also reduces the required time served from two-thirds to one-half of the original sentence , after accounting for good time credit, making more individuals eligible for home detention sooner. Separately, the bill makes technical corrections to the compassionate release statute, clarifying that it applies to offenses committed before November 1, 1987, and streamlining the process for defendants to file motions for compassionate release after exhausting administrative remedies or a 30-day waiting period.