"Thousands of people on home confinement have reconnected with their families, have found gainful employment, and have followed the rules," Garland proclaimed in a statement.
"We will exercise our authority so that those who have made rehabilitative progress and complied with the conditions of home confinement, and who in the interests of justice should be given an opportunity to continue transitioning back to society, are not unnecessarily returned to prison," he declared.
Earlier in the day, Garland met with several inmates on home confinement to hear about their experiences.
The Department of Justice ruling reinterprets the language contained within the CARES Act which allowed prisoners to be transferred into home confinement, according to the New York Post.
The DOJ's 15-page memo stated that the bill was "Most reasonably interpreted" to give Bureau of Prisons officials "Discretion over which inmates to return to facilities and which to leave in home confinement at the end of the emergency period."
Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a reexamination of the ruling as prison reform advocates have lobbied the White House for a more flexible approach to home confinement, according to The Washington Post.
"This is excellent news for thousands of people and their families to get before the holidays. There is no way the people on CARES Act home confinement should have been sent back to prison, and we are very grateful to the Biden administration for fixing this mistake," Families Against Mandatory Minimums President Kevin Ring said.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
AG Merrick Garland announces predictable fate of thousands of federal inmates freed due to COVID
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