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BOP Prisoners on Extended Home Confinement Not Headed Back to Prison When COVID-19 Emergency Ends
Loaded on June 1, 2022
by Casey Bastian
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2022, page 28
Filed under:
COVID-19,
Revocation Proceedings,
Compassionate Release.
Location:
United States of America.
by Casey J. Bastian
Imagine having a chance to get out of prison early, doing the right thing with the opportunity and working towards your ultimate freedom, only to have it taken back. That was the situation faced by several thousand people released to home confinement by the federal Bureau …
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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