Posted on 07/21/2021 12:04:41 AM PDT by blueplum
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 there is no reason to return those people to prison.
Since being released, those now in home confinement "have posed no threat, and are already reintegrating into society, reconnecting with their families, and contributing to our economy," he said in a statement...
...."The Trump-era's Office of Legal Counsel opinion that will require incarcerated individuals return to prison once the public health emergency ends serves no public health purpose," [Sen Cory Booker] said in a statement..."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
How does someone on house arrest contribute to the economy?
28,000 is about the total combined amount of Biden’s “wins” in GA and AZ...
What do they say about Biden’s political prisoners? The Jan 6 protesters kept in isolation for trials scheduled to occur next YEAR? Do the Dems have any objections to political prisoners?
Durbin hates American soldiers and called them, including my son who helped to liberate Iraq from a fellow-Nazi-type, Saddam, “Nazis” and Booker is a lying closet clown who is of the newer type of closet Marxist psychopath.
Guess they want their friends and bedbuddies out of jail.
All 28,587? How does the dipstick know this?
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