USA Today: ACLU, NAACP among those pressing Biden to grant clemency to inmates sent home during COVID
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Advocacy groups have urged the Justice Department to rescind the legal memo, but officials did not believe the issue was urgent. The Justice Department said in May that inmates with years left to serve are not likely to be sent back to prison anytime soon because the public health crisis is expected to last for the rest of the year. But ramped-up vaccination efforts and reopening of cities have set off alarm bells among prison advocates.
Inimai Chettiar, federal director of the Justice Action Network, said the groups are putting pressure on the White House after "lack of action and lack of response" from the Justice Department.