The Week: 'A Christmas miracle': DOJ overturns prior memo, allowing prisoners transferred home during COVID to stay there
In what NPR calls a "rare reconsideration," the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has concluded the Bureau of Prisons has the "discretion" to permit the low-risk inmates released from prison and placed in "extended home confinement" to remain there once the COVID-19 emergency ends.
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"I screamed into the phone but who care's it's a Christmas miracle!!!" tweeted President of Justice Action Network Holly Harris in celebration of the news.