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available at: http://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/Home%20Confinemet%20memo_2021_04_13.pdf. The letter, dated Feb. 7, is a response to a request from 27 members of Congress asking for specific details regarding whether or not all released prisoners will remain on home confinement and . First, that section empowers the Attorney General to make a finding, during the pandemic emergency, that the pandemic has materially affected the functioning of the Bureau. Rather than being kept behind bars, people spend the time confined in their . 1102, 134 Stat. The Bureau recently published a final rule codifying Bureau procedures regarding time credits that govern pre-release custody placements under section 3624(g). In April 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) under the CARES Act to reduce the number of people in federal prisons. Initially, prioritization is being made to review inmates who meet the following . 13, 2021), In response . Third, the FSA created an incentive for eligible inmates to participate in programs shown to reduce their risk of recidivism by allowing individuals to earn time credits, which may be used for earlier transfer to prerelease custody, including home confinement, notwithstanding the time limits included in 18 U.S.C. The statute provides that an inmate placed in home confinement under this incentive program shall remain in home confinement until the prisoner has served not less than 85 percent of the prisoner's imposed term of imprisonment, and that the Bureau should provide progressively less restrictive conditions on inmates who demonstrate continued compliance with the conditions of prerelease custody.[51]. see supra Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Public Law 116-136, sec. documents in the last year, 470 At the time of this previous opinion, the Bureau was of the view that the consequences of its proper exercise of discretion to lengthen the maximum period of home confinement during the covered emergency period could continue after the expiration of the COVID-19 emergency. As of January 10, 2022, 4,902 inmates had been placed in home confinement under the CARES Act; 2,826 of those inmates had release dates in more than 12 months. CARES Act sec. 3624(c)(2).[15]. Following guidance from the Attorney General, the Director has exercised his discretion under the CARES Act to place thousands of inmates in home confinement during the pandemic emergency. This proposed rule does not impose any new reporting or recordkeeping requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Such cost savings were among the intended benefits of the First Step Act.[56]. [20] [68] 18 U.S.C. The . Other potential costs relate to inmates serving longer sentences in home confinement as a result of the CARES Act. The term escape with prosecution indicates that a United States Attorney's Office has decided to prosecute an inmate for escape under 18 U.S.C. 55. [12], The Attorney General's memorandum explained that some offenses would render an inmate ineligible for home confinement, and that other serious offenses would weigh more heavily against consideration for home confinement. The CARES Act allowed for the compassionate release of prisoners who had risk factors for the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and who pose a lower risk of flight. 03/03/2023, 160 26, 2020), 23, 2020), 301, 18 U.S.C. [8] The Department's interpretation of the statute is also consistent with Congressional support for increasing the use of home confinement as part of reentry programming, as the Second Chance Act of 2007 and the First Step Act of 2018 demonstrate. 13. the official SGML-based PDF version on govinfo.gov, those relying on it for (Nov. 16, 2020), Language and Structure of the CARES Act, PART 0ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2022-13217, MODS: Government Publishing Office metadata, https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/docs/bop_memo_home_confinement_april3.pdf, https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1457926/download, part 0 of title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/about-covid-19/basics-covid-19.html, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html, https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/community/correction-detention/COVID-Corrections-considerations-for-loosening-restrictions-Webinar.pdf, https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter.%20to%20DOJ%20and%20BOP%20on%20COVID-19%20and%20FSA%20provisions%20-%20final%20bipartisan%20text%20with%20signature%20blocks.pdf, https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/docs/bop_memo_home_confinement.pdf, https://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/pattern.jsp, http://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/Home%20Confinemet%20memo_2021_04_13.pdf, https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/Updated_Home_Confinement_Guidance_20201116.pdf, https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/Home%20Confinement%20memo_2021_04_13.pdf, https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/faq.jsp, https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/7320_001_CN-2.pdf, https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1355886/download, https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/1593/actions?r=5&s=5, https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/756/actions?r=6&s=9, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/living-prisons-jails.html, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html. CDC, For People Living in Prisons and Jails (updated Feb. 15, 2022), Resume. codified in relevant part at . You may bring the following items for your personal use during your stay at our hospital: Pyjamas and dressing gowns if you do not wish to wear the hospital's pyjamas. FSA Time Credits, 87 FR 2705 (Jan. 19, 2022). codified at In the SCA, Congress increased the Bureau's discretion to place inmates in home confinement in two ways. . the Department's assessment, public safety considerations do not undercut the benefits associated with allowing inmates placed in home confinement under the CARES Act to remain in home confinement after the expiration of the covered emergency period. Rep. No. (last visited Apr. 5 U.S.C. 32. By the Act's plain terms, the Director's authority to place an inmate in home confinement under the CARES Act expires at the end of the covered emergency period, or if the Attorney General revokes his finding. Federal Register issue. 48. 5. See, e.g., See 509, 510, 515-519. 65. 3621(b). . The President of the United States manages the operations of the Executive branch of Government through Executive orders. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal 4001(b)(1), to codify the Director's discretion to allow inmates placed in home confinement pursuant to the CARES Act to remain in home confinement after the covered emergency period expires. better and aid in comparing the online edition to the print edition. 26-27 (2020), Federal Bureau of Prisons, PATTERN Risk Assessment, Annual Determination of Average Cost of Incarceration Fee (COIF), 86 FR 49060, 49060 (Sept. 1, 2021). the Federal Register. The Department expects these numbers will continue to fluctuate as inmates continue to serve their sentences and the Bureau continues to conduct individualized assessments to make home confinement placements under the CARES Act for the duration of the covered emergency period. edition of the Federal Register. The Bureau also explained that home confinement decisions have historically been made on an individualized basis, which serves penological goals. See, e.g., the current document as it appeared on Public Inspection on paragraph. Whether the BOP will do that, however, remains to be seen. 26, 2022). The CARES Act provides that if the Attorney General finds that emergency conditions will . Start Printed Page 36792 5 U.S.C. July 20, 2022. CARES Act. Proclamation 9994, Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak, 85 FR 15337 (Mar. (last visited Apr. Second, the FSA reauthorized and expanded the pilot program to place eligible elderly offenders in home confinement by lowering the age requirement from 65 to 60 years old, reducing the amount of the sentence imposed an inmate must have served to qualify for the program, and allowing it to be applied to eligible terminally ill inmates regardless of age. 5194, 5196-97 (2018). 2016). It ranks as one of the most successful programs implemented by the BOP. It is further supported by evidence demonstrating that the Bureau can appropriately manage public safety concerns related to inmates in home confinement, and by the penological, rehabilitative, public health, public safety, and societal benefits of allowing inmates to effectively prepare for successful reentry after the conclusion of their criminal sentences. 50. 52. First, it found that because Congress passed the CARES Act to provide various forms of temporary relief, the Act was best read to limit its effects to the covered emergency period. These efforts were undertaken over years of bipartisan negotiations and garnered broad support across the political spectrum, beginning with the Second Chance Act of 2007 and According to the Bureau, as of March 4, 2022, a small . at *4. 53. As the extremely low percentage of inmates placed on CARES Act home confinement returned to secure custody shows, the Bureau can effectively manage public safety concerns associated with the low-risk inmates placed in home confinement under the CARES Act for longer periods of time. In its recent opinion, OLC concluded that section 12003(b)(2) does not require the Bureau to return to secure custody inmates on CARES Act home confinement following the end of the covered emergency period. The authority citation for part 0 continues to read as follows: Authority: 3621(a) (A person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . H.R. The Proposed Rule concerns people that went to home confinement under the CARES Act. Id. Therefore, under Executive Order 13132, the Attorney General determines that this proposed regulation does not have sufficient federalism implications to warrant the preparation of a Federalism Assessment. and discretion to designate the place of those inmates' imprisonment. increased crowding in prisons, which makes social distancing difficult, is associated with increased incidence of COVID-19. following the end of the covered emergency period. 804. Section 12003(b)(2) ends with the phrase as the Director determines appropriate, which explicitly delegates authority to the Director to determine the appropriate amount to lengthen a period of home confinement. L. 116-136): (1) During the covered emergency period as defined by the CARES Act, when the Attorney General determines that emergency conditions will materially affect the functioning of the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau), lengthening the maximum amount of time for which the Director is authorized to place a prisoner in home confinement under 18 U.S.C. Wilson, 18 U.S.C. These can be useful Chevron, supporting this management principle. See id. If you want to inspect the agency's public docket file in person by appointment, please see the on During the course of this reconsideration, the Bureau provided OLC with additional materials supporting its consistent interpretation of the CARES Act.