Mother Jones: Biden Said He'd Cut Incarceration in Half. So Far, the Federal Prison Population is Growing.
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But the Biden administration believes that many of these people who have not completed their sentences will be legally required to return to prison a month after the official state of emergency for the pandemic ends, according to a New York Times report on Monday. (The Trump administration took a similar position.) That decision could affect about 4,000 people who were convicted of nonviolent offenses and are now serving time in home confinement or halfway houses, according to officials who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity. And though the state of emergency likely won’t lift this year because of rising Delta variant infections, it’s little consolation for people now contemplating being ripped away from their families once more. “It’s like waiting to be sentenced all over again,” Wendy Hechtman, who is serving a 15-year sentence for a drug crime, told the Times.
“If people are already out on home confinement, and they’re home with their families, and they’re not committing new crimes,” Inimai Chettiar, federal director for the Justice Action Network, told my colleague Madison previously, “then it does seem cruel and unnecessary and unreasonable to force the [federal Bureau of Prisons] to bring them back to prison.”