The attorney general has directed federal prison authorities to begin identifying more elderly and medically compromised inmates for home confinement.
Attorney General William Barr has directed federal prison authorities to begin identifying more elderly and medically compromised inmates for home confinement to avoid a larger outbreak of the coronavirus inside the agency's 122 institutions.
As of Thursday, officials reported that six inmates and four staffers have been infected with the virus. Barr said that one of the inmates, a prisoner in Louisiana, was in critical condition. Describing the risk of a prison outbreak to"a fire in a dry barn," some conservative groups, including the American Conservative Union, also have called on the president to intervene. The groups urged the president to issue an executive order, allowing the elderly and non-violent offenders who have served two-thirds of their sentences to complete their terms at home.that the administration had been considering such a move.
In a letter earlier this week to Barr and Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal, a group of senators led by Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., urged the government to begin moving the elderly and terminally ill from custody."Conditions of confinement do not afford individuals the opportunity to take proactive steps to protect themselves, and prisons often create the ideal environment for the transmission of contagious disease," the senators wrote.
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