Posted on 12/21/2021 10:58:36 PM PST by blueplum
Attorney General Merrick Garland's directive reverses a Trump administration decision that would have required thousands of convicts to return to their cells.
...In passing the CARES Act, the federal government's response to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Congress allowed the release last year of some prisoners based on their age, health and length of remaining sentence. William Barr, who was then the attorney general, acted to allow the release after five inmates died of Covid-related illnesses in Louisiana and Ohio.
The department's Office of Legal Counsel said in January that federal law required many of those inmates to return. But a memorandum issued Tuesday said a better reading of the law is that it "does not require that prisoners in extended home confinement be returned en masse to correctional facilities when the emergency period ends."...
...Justice Department figures show that more than 35,000 inmates were released to home confinement. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Wonder how many Americans got a death sentence today without even knowing it? Thanks Merrick “the centrist”.
Attorney General Merrick Garland's directive reverses a Trump administration decision that would have required thousands of convicts to return to their cells.
Meanwhile anyone caught up in the Jan 6th FBI operation (and that’s what it was) is still sitting after a nearly a year.
Most for misdemeanor trespassing charges. F the DOJ.
Bump
Our government seems to have more compassion for criminals, illegals, and terrorist than they do for law abiding, tax paying citizens. It is really kind of surreal.
Criminals have become the Media-Dem Party’s shock troops, so why would Garland want them put out of commission?
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