Law enforcement and prosecutor groups urge Prez Biden to commute sentence of all in home confinement cohort
Via email, I learned this morning about this new letter to Prez Biden from the groups Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration, Fair and Just Prosecution, and Law Enforcement Action Partnership. Here is how it starts:
We write as individuals and on behalf of our respective national organizations — Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration, Law Enforcement Action Partnership, and Fair and Just Prosecution — as it pertains to the approximately 4,000 individuals placed on home confinement pursuant the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act, who face the continued threat of reincarceration due to the prior administration’s January 15, 2021, Office of Legal Counsel memo (“OLC memo”). We are pleased to see reports that your Administration is beginning to consider commutations for individuals who have committed nonviolent drug offenses and have been placed on home confinement pursuant the CARES Act. Joining members of Congress, justice reform advocates across the political spectrum, and companies that currently employ these individuals, we seek to add our law enforcement perspective and urge you to grant clemency to all individuals placed on home confinement pursuant the CARES Act — regardless of underlying offense or sentence.
Some of many prior related posts:
- Notable OLC opinion on "Home Confinement of Federal Prisoners After the COVID-19 Emergency"
- Spotlighting effectiveness of home confinement under CARES Act and concerns about OLC memo disruption
- Effective review of (just some) issues surrounding home confinement for the Biden Justice Department
- Notably advocacy for Prez Biden to use his clemency power to ensure those released into home confinement need not return to prison
- Why aren't there much stronger calls for CONGRESS to fix post-pandemic home confinement problems?
- Hoping grandmothers and others on home confinement get compassionate consideration
- Home confinement cohort at risk of being returned to federal prison garnering still more attention (but still little action)
- Advocacy groups argue to DOJ that OLC home confinement memo is "incorrect" and should be rescinded
- Senators Durbin and Booker write to Prez Biden requesting "immediate action" to prevent home confinement cohort from facing return to prison
- Prez Biden reportedly considering, for home confinement cohort, clemency only for "nonviolent drug offenders with less than four years" left on sentence
- Action beginning on Biden clemency plan for some drug offenders in CARES home confinement cohort
- Sending a better clemency message while shooting the messenger
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