Sentencing Law and Policy: Will some (most? all?) federal prisoners transferred to home confinement be returned to prison after the pandemic ends?
Since June 28, 2004 October 16, 2020 Will some (most? all?) federal prisoners transferred to home confinement be returned to prison after the pandemic ends? The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new Walter Palvo piece at Forbes headlined "US Attorney States Federal Inmates On Home Confinement Will Return To Prison Once 'Pandemic Is Declared Over'." Here are excerpts: It is a fact that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has had a difficult time controlling the spread of COVID-19 within its 122 prison facilities located across the country. As of October 13, 2020, ther...