
This group has a lot to lose when the Covid emergency ends
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President Joe Biden must use his power of clemency to commute all -- not just a narrow category -- of the sentences of people who were released under the CARES Act and not posing a public-safety threat, writes Ashish Prashar.
Just before leaving office in January, the Justice Department under the outgoing administration issued a memo saying that those released on home confinement through the CARES Act would need to return to prison after the Covid-19 emergency ended. Of the more than 7,500 people under home confinement, a substantial number could be forced back to prison -- the precise number isn't known.
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