New York Times: Some Inmates Can Stay Confined at Home After Covid Emergency, Justice Dept. Says

The Justice Department moved on Tuesday to allow certain federal inmates to remain on home confinement when the government declares an end to the Covid emergency, reversing a Trump-era legal opinion that said the Bureau of Prisons would have to recall them to federal facilities.

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Mr. Garland called Mr. Durbin and inmate advocates on Tuesday to inform them of the reversal.

Holly Harris, the president and executive director of Justice Action Network, a bipartisan criminal justice reform group, hailed the change. Mr. Garland said in a conversation with her that the new opinion was the legally correct conclusion; she called it a morally correct one.

“People have gotten jobs and reconnected with their children,” Ms. Harris said. “The relief they have to be feeling right now is overwhelming.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/us/politics/prison-covid-home-confinement.html