The Justice Department (DOJ) is considering releasing older prisoners for home confinement as part of efforts to mitigate the impact of the CCP virus in federal prisons, the attorney general said.
Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday that he had directed the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to assess whether it was possible to expand home confinement “particularly for those older prisoners who have served substantial parts of their sentence and no longer pose a threat and may have underlying conditions that make them particularly vulnerable.”
