Attorney General William Barr has directed prison officials at a number of federal facilities besieged by growing coronavirus cases to immediately maximize early release programs for a wide swath of vulnerable inmates
"We are experiencing significant levels of infection at several of our facilities," Barr wrote in a memo Friday, singling out federal prisons in Louisiana, Connecticut and Ohio that have been especially hard hit by the pandemic."We have to move with dispatch in using home confinement, where appropriate, to move vulnerable inmates out of these institutions.
State and locally owned prisons have been experiencing the spread of the virus behind bars and experimenting with early release programs, too.In New York City -- the epicenter of the virus in the US with more than 1,800 reported deaths, according to a tally by researchers at Johns Hopkins University -- more than 160 inmates in city facilities were confirmed to have the virus as of earlier this week.
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