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  • Leading Democrats oppose Biden plan to end house arrest and potentially return inmates to prison after the pandemic

    07/21/2021 12:04:41 AM PDT · by blueplum · 4 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 20 Jul 2021 | Charles Davis
    Two leading Senate Democrats are urging the White House to reconsider a legal opinion that could potentially return thousands of people to a federal prison. At issue is a pandemic-era policy, approved by Congress, that allowed the federal government to release inmates who were deemed to have especially serious health issues putting them at heightened risk from the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. Those prisoners — 28,587 since March 2020 — were allowed to serve out the remainder of their sentences under house arrest..... Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday that...