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This bill, titled the Safer Detention Act of 2025, aims to expand eligibility for and provide judicial review for the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program, which allows certain elderly and terminally ill offenders to serve the remainder of their sentences under home detention instead of in prison. Specifically, it amends the Second Chance Act of 2007 to allow courts to reduce sentences and substitute home detention for the unserved portion of a sentence for eligible offenders, even if the Bureau of Prisons denies their request, after they have exhausted administrative appeals or waited 30 days for a response. The bill also extends the program's authorization through 2029 and clarifies that offenses under the laws of the District of Columbia are included, while also adjusting the eligibility requirement for serving a portion of the sentence. Additionally, it makes a technical correction to the compassionate release provisions in title 18 of the U.S. Code, ensuring that motions for sentence reduction can be considered for offenses committed before November 1, 1987, and clarifies the process for defendants seeking such reductions by establishing a similar 30-day waiting period or exhaustion of administrative appeals before a court can review the request.

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