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This bill, the Safer Detention Act of 2023, aims to expand eligibility for and provide judicial review of the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program, which allows certain non-violent, elderly offenders to serve the remainder of their sentences under home detention. Specifically, the bill expands the program to include offenses under the laws of the District of Columbia, and modifies the eligibility criteria to require that an offender has served at least half of their sentence, reduced by any credit for good behavior. Additionally, the bill provides a process for defendants to seek judicial review of the Bureau of Prisons' decision on home detention placement, allowing them to file a motion with the court after exhausting administrative appeals or 30 days after submitting a request. Finally, the bill makes a technical correction to the compassionate release provisions to allow consideration of cases involving offenses committed before November 1, 1987.

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