Refinery29: Federal Prisons Will Strictly Isolate Inmates--But Is That Enough to Protect Them?

Advocates have been warning for weeks that prisons would become a hotbed of infections and have lobbied for vulnerable people and people incarcerated simply because they can’t afford bail to be released. On March 26, Attorney General William P. Barr issued a memorandum giving the BOP the ability to release certain prisoners to home confinement but Holly Harris, president and executive director of the Justice Action Network told The Washington Post that advocates were “distressed” that the memo placed “significant restrictions on what individuals would be eligible to return home.”

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