US Department of Justice pledges not to send prisoners released home due to COVID-19 to prisons
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The US Department of Justice has decided not to return prisoners released home due to the COVID-19 pandemic to prisons. Such a promise was made by the head of the department, Merrick Garland, RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He stressed that the Ministry of Justice intends to use all available powers in order not to send to jail those who have made progress in rehabilitation, did not violate the conditions of house arrest, and who, in the interests of justice, should continue to return to society.
“Thousands of people have been reunited with their families under house arrest, found income-generating jobs and followed all regulations,” Garland added.
He said he got the agency's legal adviser to revise the ruling on the return of all prisoners to prisons at the end of the coronavirus emergency.
In March 2021, it became known that prisons in the United States began to release prisoners in order to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus. It was planned to release those who committed minor crimes, as well as minors, the elderly and the sick.
