Mother Jones: A Last-Minute Trump Move Threatens to Send Released Prisoners Back to Prison after the Pandemic

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Advocates say it’s currently unclear how many people serving out their sentences at home could be sent back to prison if the Biden administration does not rescind or replace the opinion before the pandemic emergency is declared over. Currently, more than 7,700 federal prisoners are under home confinement, and releases are continuing.

“Given the new administration’s vocal commitment to racial justice and criminal justice, this is just a really easy thing for them to do right away,” says Inimai Chettiar, federal director for the Justice Action Network, who has been lobbying the Biden administration to revoke the DOJ opinion. “If people are already out on home confinement, and they’re home with their families, and they’re not committing new crimes, and they’re following all of the protocols of being on home confinement, then it does seem cruel and unnecessary and unreasonable to force the BOP to bring them back to prison.”

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/02/federal-prison-early-release-pandemic-trump/