Safety valve (law)

For safety valves in copyright law, see Traditional safety valves.

The safety valve is a provision in the Sentencing Reform Act and the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines that authorizes a sentence below the statutory minimum for certain nonviolent, non-managerial drug offenders with little or no criminal history.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)
  2. ↑ U.S.S.G. §5C1.2