“Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel had overturned a Trump-era legal precedent that would have required thousands of federal inmates in home confinement to return to prison once the pandemic state of emergency comes to an end. The inmates were released early to home confinement last year due to the pandemic. Assistant Attorney General Christopher Schroeder wrote in a memo the administration doesn’t reverse precedent lightly, but it had concluded “that the better reading of section 12003(b)(2) [of the CARES Act] and [Bureau of Prison’s] preexisting authorities does not require that prisoners in extended home confinement be returned en masse to correctional facilities when the emergency period ends.”
At least we’re not already in the midst of a major crime wave. SMDH.
At least we’re not already in the midst of a major crime wave. SMDH.
