by Eric Lendrum
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would be permanently extending the early release of thousands of federal inmates who were set free due to a spike in COVID cases, as reported by the New York Post.
In doing so, the DOJ reversed an order previously made by President Donald Trump in January that would have seen such prisoners eventually returned to confinement. Instead, over 5,000 prisoners will now either remain in home confinement or be allowed to roam completely free.
“Thousands of people on home confinement have reconnected with their families, have found gainful employment, and have followed the rules,” Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed in his statement announcing the controversial move. “We will exercise our authority so that those who have made rehabilitative progress and complied with the conditions of home confinement, and who in the interests of justice should be given an opportunity to continue transitioning back to society, are not unnecessarily returned to prison.”
The order deliberately reinterprets certain wording contained in the CARES Act, the first major coronavirus relief bill signed into law back in March of 2020. According to the 15-page memo released by the Biden Administration’s DOJ, the bill could be “most reasonably interpreted” to give the Bureau of Prisons “discretion over which inmates to return to facilities and which to leave in home confinement at the end of the emergency period.”
Christopher Shroeder, an assistant attorney general with the Office of Legal Counsel, further claimed that the law “allows the agency to use its expertise to recall prisoners only where penologically justified, and avoids a blanket, one-size-fits-all policy.”
As a result of the CARES Act provision, which aimed to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus through federal prison facilities, as many as 35,000 inmates were transferred out of prison and into home confinement. Most of the prisoners in question completed their sentences, while several hundred committed additional crimes while on release and were sent back to prison. Approximately 5,000 prisoners remain in home confinement, and these are the prisoners who will be most impacted by the Justice Department’s latest order.
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Eric Lendrum reports for American Greatness.
Most of the prisoners completed there sentences. It said only a few hundred actually messed up. Out of 35,000 only a few hundred started messing up! Did u ever stop to think about how many prisoners should actualy be in there or are wrongfully convicted! You clearly couldnt see that with the mass incarceration EPIDEMIC we have going on in our county? You still cant see that when they say out of 35,000 prisoners a few hundred messed up and the rest did good 35,000 only a few hundred mest up!! So how many didn’t? Way to many prisoners did not mess up THAT MEANS WAY TO MANY PEOPLE ARE WRONGFULLY LOCKED UP !! IT IS INSANE how many people are locked up that are wrongfully convicted or should have a nuther chance because they mad a foolish choice probably about drugs when they were young sentencet to some 15 to life! gess what thoughs wrongfully CONVICTED can never get that time back ever! they can never go back in time and get there lives back it’s gone for every. They say that the feds have a 98% conviction NO THEY HAVE A 98% MAKE U PLEA OUT WITH THE THREAT IF 20 YRS IF U LOSE TRILE, AND THEN THEY STILL GIVE THEM EXTREME SENTENCES. 75% OF THE PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT!! Department of corrections dosnt correct any thing I know to many people innocent people that were not addicted to heroin that got put in this privately owned ABOUSE camps for years and came out addicted to heroin. that’s there Idea of corrections. And u wanna say let’s just let Maham run the streets? after they just said that out of 35,000 most are doing good a few hundred messed up. so u take 35,000 – a few hundred so what will even go more then a few let’s say 500. 35,000- 500 = 34,500 ruffly ARE DOING GOOD ! THATS HOW RUFFLY A GOOD ESTIMATE OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, AND THE OVER SENTENCED 34,500! BUT U DIDNT SEE THAT DID U U IGNORET SHMUCK. YOU MUST BE ONE OF THOUGHS RICH WITH NO LOVED ONE WRONGFULLY SENT TO PRISON AND LOST 90% OF THERE LIFE FOR NO RESON!! ……..
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Gee, what could possibly go wrong here! Why incarcerate anybody? Let’s just let mayhem take over! This latest “variant” is basically the common cold…certainly sounds scary enough to let them out to commit more crime!