The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday announced that prisoners released due to COVID would not have to come back to prison.
So, what happened to the rule of law? These are people who put the police at risk when they committed crimes and were subsequently arrested. Prosecutors put taxpayers’ time and money into their cases and juries gave up their time to put them away. But Garland gave himself the power to ignore all that and set them free.
The decision represents a major reversal for the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which previously had issued an opinion that said the Bureau of Prisons had no legal authority to keep inmates at home once the pandemic emergency had subsided.
This is all about giving the leftist criminal justice advocacy groups what they want which is to ignore the crimes of people they consider guilty of low-level crimes.
“Thousands of people on home confinement have reconnected with their families, have found gainful employment, and have followed the rules,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
In 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act, which broadened the Justice Department’s authority to release low-level inmates into home confinement during the pandemic to ease crowding and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
In January of this year, the department’s Office of Legal Counsel found that once the emergency is lifted, the federal Bureau of Prisons “must recall prisoners in home confinement to correctional facilities” if they do not otherwise qualify to remain at home.
Dozens of advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Justice Action Network, and FAMM – a group that opposes mandatory minimum sentences – have urged the Justice Department to overturn that opinion.
They pressed the White House to use its clemency powers to commute the sentences of those who were sent home.
Garland said on Tuesday that he is also planning to direct the BOP to establish a rule allowing them to remain free. That’s a big change alteration of our justice system.
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The garbage should have never been released in the first place. Think about it, criminals were released to walk the streets and honest people were forced to stay in their homes. Who are the prisoners?
This has been the “norm” for over fifty years…Remember visiting a friends house that was “burglar proofed”…sitting inside and looking out through the bars…it was very questionable who was in gaol…
What this kind of thinking leads to is Vigilante Justice. People will just shoot criminals if they know they won’t go to jail. The world is going to get very dangerous for Godless Communist Democrat Liberal Losers when there is no Police and Law & Order to protect them.
Democrats know they will need many BLM and Antifa in the 2022 and 2024 elections to try and intimidate people who want to vote Republicans…
thus releasing criminals from jail and keeping them out means more BLM and Antifa participants ( and as you already know they are paid indirectly by Soros, so finding people who need a quick 50 bucks is easy)
There are few if any violent offenders among those released tohome confinement by the DOJ. 90% or more were convicted of minor white collar crimes and reamin obligated to pay restitution. They pose little danger to the communty. This is simply a contunuation of policie sput in effect duringthe Trump Adminstration. Anyway, there is plenty of room now for the real criminals starting with Garland, Piglosi, Obiden and the rest fo the CCP agent masquerading as Democrats. The Republic will be far better off with the traitors locked up.