March 2016
Public Comment Received on Proposed Amendments
(81 FR 2295)

Amendment No. 1: Miscellaneous

U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte (R), Virginia; U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R), Texas; Senator Orrin Hatch (R), Utah
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group

Amendment No. 2: Compassionate Release

Judicial Conference of the United States, Criminal Law Committee
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group
U.S. Probation Office for the Eastern District of Michigan
American Civil Liberties Union
American Correctional Association
Center for American Progress
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Human Rights Watch
My Federal Prison Consultant
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
PROTECT
Release Aging People in Prison
James B. Craven III, Attorney At Law, Durham, NC
Tina Maschi, PhD, LCSW, ACSW, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and George Leibowitz, PhD, LICSW, University of Vermont
Kate Stith, Professor, Lafayette S. Foster of Law, Yale Law School
Brie Williams, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Sample Citizen Letters

Amendment No. 3: Conditions of Probation and Supervised Release

Judicial Conference of the United States, Criminal Law Committee
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Victims Advisory Group
U.S. Probation Office for the Eastern District of Michigan
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
PROTECT

Amendment No. 4: Animal Fighting

U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D), Oregon; U.S. Representative Mike Fitzbpatrick (R), Pennsylvania
U.S. Representative Tom Marino (R), Pennsylvania; U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D), Massachusetts
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D), California
U.S. Senator David Vitter (R), Louisiana
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Probation Officers Advisory Group
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Animal Rescue League of Boston
Animal Welfare Institute
Forensic Veterinary Investigations, LLC
Humane Society of the United States
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention to Cruelty to Animals
Sample Citizen Letters

Amendment No. 5: Child Pornography Circuit Conflicts

Judicial Conference of the United States, Criminal Law Committee
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Victims Advisory Group
U.S. Probation Office for the Eastern District of Michigan
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
PROTECT
John Olive, Senior U.S. Probation Officer, District of Wyoming
Sample Citizen Letters

Amendment No. 6: Immigration

Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo, District of New Mexico
U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns, Southern District of California
Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins, District of Arizona
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Judge Philip R. Martinez, Western District of Texas
Chief U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz, Southern District of California
U.S. Magistrate Judge James F. Stiven, Southern District of California (Retired)
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group
Probation Officers Advisory Group
U.S. Probation Office for the Eastern District of Michigan
American Civil Liberties Union
American Immigration Council
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
Center for American Progress
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
Encuentro
End Streamline Coalition
Franciscan Action Network
Human Rights Watch
Justice Strategies and Grassroots Leadership
Kids in Need of Defense
Kino Border Initiative
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers’ Guild
New Mexico Comunidades en Accion y de Fe
New Mexico Voices for Children
No More Deaths
Reformed Church of Highland Park
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
United We Dream
We Belong Together
Women’s Refugee Commission
Victor M. Manjarrez, Jr., Project Director, Center for Law and Human Behavior, University of Texas at El Paso
Cynthia Ann Reyes, U.S. Probation Officer, Southern District of Texas