Justice in Sentencing for Survivors Act of 2024

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8615 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8615 To authorize the court to impose a sentence that is below the minimum statutory sentence in the case of a victim offender. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2024 Mr. Morelle (for himself and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To authorize the court to impose a sentence that is below the minimum statutory sentence in the case of a victim offender. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Justice in Sentencing for Survivors Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Although the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, the United States has one of the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with over 1,900,000 people incarcerate…