From The Crime Report:
The nation is approaching the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical innovations and discoveries made in response to the pandemic have been nothing short of amazing.
Surprisingly, perhaps even oddly, the pandemic proved one thing to the nation’s criminal justice system: there are tens of thousands of inmates incarcerated in penal and jail systems that do not belong there and who could be safely released back into the community without posing a public safety risk.
Under the authority of the Cares Act of 2020 (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act), the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP), identified the most vulnerable inmates of the virus and released them back into community under home confinement.
Ultimately, the BOP released nearly 5,000 such inmates during the height of the pandemic. Continue reading >>>
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