'A Christmas miracle': DOJ overturns prior memo, allowing prisoners transferred home during COVID to stay there

In what NPR calls a "rare reconsideration," the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has concluded the Bureau of Prisons has the "discretion" to permit the low-risk inmates released from prison and placed in "extended home confinement" to remain there once the COVID-19 emergency ends.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.