Specifically, the Act states: During the covered emergency period, if the Attorney General finds that emergency conditions will materially affect the functioning of the Bureau, the Director of the Bureau may lengthen the maximum amount of time for which the Director is authorized to place a prisoner in home confinement under the first sentence of section 3624(c)(2) of title 18, United States Code, as the Director determines appropriate. It further explained that inmates who engaged in violent or gang-related activity while in prison, those who incurred a violation within the past year, or those with a PATTERN score above the minimum range would not receive priority consideration under the memorandum. see also PATTERN is a tool that measures an inmate's risk of recidivism and provides her with opportunities to reduce her risk score. Home Confinement of Federal Prisoners After the COVID-19 Emergency individualized determinations about the conditions of confinement for inmates placed in home confinement under the CARES Act, as it does with respect to all prisoners,[27] If you want to inspect the agency's public docket file in person by appointment, please see the 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. 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. In addition, studies have found that efforts to decarcerate prisons in other contexts, which were not limited to home confinement measures, did not harm public safety. Home-Confinement Placements Start Printed Page 36796 251(a), 122 Stat. L. 110-199, which was approved Apr. to encourage the development and support of, and to expand the availability of, evidence-based programs that enhance public safety and reduce recidivism, such as substance abuse treatment, alternatives to incarceration, and comprehensive reentry services . . See This proposed rule will not result in the expenditure by State, local, and Tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more (adjusted annually for inflation) in any one year, and it will not significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Prob. The bill is a product of multi-year bipartisan negotiations and enjoys support from across the political spectrum.). Register, and does not replace the official print version or the official The Second Chance Act is a law that was signed back in April 2008. 18 USC 1 note. facilities unless they are otherwise eligible for home confinement under 18 U.S.C. Additionally, the Second Chance Act Home Confinement Pilot Program and the changes to 18 U.S.C. 1501 12003(c)(1), 134 Stat. Counts are subject to sampling, reprocessing and revision (up or down) throughout the day. . This interpretation is supported by the text, structure, and purpose of the CARES Act and therefore is the better reading of the statute, as more fully explained in OLC's December 21, 2021 opinion. These benefits include operational flexibility in managing BOP-operated institutions and cost savings for the Bureau. The January 2021 OLC opinion based its conclusion on three principal determinations. 3, 2020), Please submit electronic comments through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Public Law 116-136, sec. Once the Bureau has appropriately lengthened an inmate's maximum period of home confinement under the CARES Act, sections 3624(c)(2), 3621(a), and 3621(b) provide the Bureau with ongoing authority to manage that placement. 3582 related to the compassionate release program only apply to U.S. (federal) code offenders. BOP, 35,277 inmates in home confinement through use of all its authorities. 3624(c)(2), during and for 30 days after the termination of the national emergency declaration concerning COVID-19, provided that the Attorney General has made a finding that emergency conditions are materially affecting BOP's functioning. Accordingly, it is appropriate for the Department to consider whether the reintroduction into prison populations of individuals placed in home confinement, in part, upon consideration of their vulnerability to COVID-19[67] available at 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 Although the Department believes its understanding of CARES Act section 12003(b)(2) is the best reading of the statute for the reasons explained above, were a court to disagree and find the statute unclear, the Department's interpretation would be reasonable for those same reasons and the additional reasons explained below. 12003(b)(2), 134 Stat. Proclamation 9994, Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak, 85 FR 15337 (Mar. 60. Jody Sundt Under President George W. Bush's administration, the Second Chance Act became law and, among other initiatives, allowed prisoners to serve up to one year of the prison term in prerelease custody . at 516. Start Printed Page 36788. See 30. 5194, 5196-97 (2018). . Second, it reasoned that Congress must have defined the covered emergency period to extend 30 days beyond the end of the declared national emergency in order to provide the Bureau with time to return prisoners to secure custody. Thus, in the Department's view, the aspects of a criminal sentence that preserve public safety can be managed in this context while also allowing individuals to more effectively prepare for life when their criminal sentences conclude. Even if section 12003(b)(2) of the CARES Act were found to be ambiguous, the Department believes its view would be entitled to deference as a reasonable reading of a statute it administers. Inmates placed in home confinement are considered in the custody of the Bureau and are subject to ongoing supervision, including monitoring, drug and alcohol testing, and check-in requirements. 1593Second Chance Act of 2007, Congress.gov, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT [59] . Many inmates placed in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic have reached the end of their term of incarceration, or will do so within the next six months. The First Step Act of 2018: An Overview - CRS Reports 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. H.R. et al., This proposed rule is not a major rule as defined by the Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. (Mar. 29, 2022). 110-199; Pub. [68] See codified at v. Congress passed the Second Chance Act in 2008, intending to reduce recidivism among youth and adults reentering the community after secure confinement or out-of-home placement, and to protect public safety. [66] 5 U.S.C. OJJDP is awarding $12.2 million under the Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program, which is designed to reduce recidivism among youth returning to their communities following confinement and under community supervision, while promoting the fair administration of justice and advancing public safety. Start Printed Page 36789 Removal from the community would therefore frustrate this goal. 54. Chevron, Federal Bureau of Prisons Program Statement 7320.01, CN-2, Home Confinement (updated Dec. 15, 2017), (last visited Apr. The Bulgarian capital is also famous for its lush parks, Viennese-style architecture, unusual bridges, and the jaw-dropping Vitosha Mountain. Home Confinement Of this total, there were 2,272 inmates with release dates in more than 18 months; 593 inmates with release dates in 5 years or more; and 27 inmates with release dates in 10 years or more. [1] 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. As explained above, the proposed rule will also have operational, penological, and health benefits. Start Printed Page 36792 7. .). 110-199). [57] Courts have recognized the Bureau's authority to administer inmates' sentences,[54] COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges for correctional facilities, such as those the Bureau manages. et al., Association Between Prison Crowding and COVID-19 Incidence Rates in Massachusetts Prisons, April 2020-January 2021, [13], Prior to the passage of the CARES Act, Congress had enacted three main sources of statutory authority to allow the Bureau to place inmates in home confinement as part of reentry programming. Compassionate Release Program. Pub. from prison and placing them on home . www.regulations.gov. 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. See 301, 18 U.S.C. That guidance also instructed that pregnant inmates should be considered for placement in a community program, to include home confinement. at *2, *15. 37. 20. Federal Register :: Pre-Release Community Confinement 3621(a) (A person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . 45. Second, OLC did not interpret the 30-day grace period following the end of the national emergency as necessarily suggesting that Congress intended the Bureau to use that time to return CARES Act inmates to secure custody. on NARA's archives.gov. For these additional reasons, detailed further below, if the statute is deemed ambiguous, the Department's interpretation of section 12003(b)(2) represents a reasonable exercise of the Attorney General's and the Director's policy discretion that would be entitled to deference. 9 . As noted above, (last visited Apr. 18 U.S.C. FSA sec. 8. BOP Memorandum at 6. Liesl M. Hagan Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Awards a Total of Nearly These markup elements allow the user to see how the document follows the (Apr. Second, the Attorney General's finding, in turn, triggers the Director's discretion to lengthen the maximum amount of time an inmate may be placed in home confinement, as the Director determines appropriate.[44] see supra [20] 18 U.S.C. The Bureau subsequently issued internal guidance that, in addition to adopting the criteria in the Attorney General's memoranda, prioritized for home confinement inmates who had served 50 percent or more of their sentences or those who had 18 months or less remaining in their sentences and had served more than 25 percent of that sentence. A narrow exception to this rule exists under the Second Chance Act, which allows the Bureau to waive the six-month or ten-percent-of-sentence requirement for elderly or terminally ill people, who can be placed in home confinement for longer periods of time. Id. at sec. 62. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID Data Tracker, These indications of congressional intent further bolster the Department's view that any ambiguity in the CARES Act should be read to provide the Director with discretion to allow inmates placed in home confinement who have been successfully serving their sentences in the community to remain there, rather than return such inmates to secure custody at 516. Re: Home Confinement For all of these reasons, and for the additional reasons the operative OLC opinion explains in more detail, the Department believes that the best reading of the CARES Act is that an inmate whose period of home confinement the Director properly lengthened during the covered emergency period may remain in home confinement, at the Director's discretion, including after the covered emergency period ends. 26, 2022). at 5210-13, See, e.g., See Third, the FSA established earned time credits that eligible inmates could accrue through participating in recidivism-reducing programs and then apply for transfer to pre-release custody, including home confinement, without regard for the time frames set forth in 18 U.S.C. 26, 2022) (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. Evaluation of the Second Chance Act program. of the Bureau may lengthen the maximum amount of time for which the Director is authorized to place a prisoner in home confinement under the first sentence of section 3624(c .
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