The Crime Report: Critics Say Biden Falls Short on Promise to Reform Prisons

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If Biden were to receive a grade for his efforts to reform prisons and policing, many experts would give him poor marks. After The New York Times reported earlier this week that the thousands of federal convicts released to home confinement to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 will be required by law to return to prison a month after the state of emergency for the pandemic ends, an outcry ensued.

“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 Mother Jones, “then it does seem cruel and unnecessary and unreasonable to force the [federal Bureau of Prisons] to bring them back to prison.”

It’s incarcerated people — and all justice-involved people — who will endure the implications of Biden’s policies most acutely.

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/07/22/critics-say-biden-falls-short-on-promise-to-reform-prisons/