New Jersey prisoners within a year of their release dates will once again be able to get out early due to the pandemic, after Governor Murphy's re-declaration of a public health emergency reactivated the state's early release law.
re-declaration of a public health emergency
this week also reactivated the state’s early release law that freed more than 5,300 people from prison early. The early releases stopped last October after Murphy ended the public health emergency. “What we know about the last round is that they were exceptionally successful, people were able to return to families and communities without any increase in risk to public safety,” Alex Shalom, senior supervising attorney for the ACLU of New Jersey said. “We’re excited to see another round.”
The first-in-the-nation law allowed prisoners to accrue public health credits due to COVID-19 — similar to earning time off for good behavior — and slash up to eight months off their sentence. At the time, New Jersey’s prisons had one of the worst COVID-19 death rates. Under the measure, the state’s prison population was reduced by 40%. WNYC/Gothamist also found that of the first 2,500 people released in late 2020, about
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