NPR: Prisoners sent to home confinement because of the pandemic might remain free
The Justice Department has reversed course in a legal analysis, which could allow thousands of people released from prison at the start of the pandemic to remain free once the coronavirus emergency ends.
In a rare reconsideration, the department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a new legal opinion concluding the Bureau of Prisons "has discretion to permit prisoners in extended home confinement to remain there."
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The news arrived only days before the Christmas holiday, which prompted Holly Harris, president of the group Justice Action Network, to tweet, "I screamed into the phone but who cares it's A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!! "