(2) HOME CONFINEMENT AUTHORITY.
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.
Several of our 2020 releasing clients with catching this wave.
Unfortunately, Barr has not (yet, after 3 days) made that declaration of “Emergency,” so as of now we are still stuck with the lesser-of-6-mos-or-10%-of-sentence limitation on home confinement, except for those eligible for the (rather limited) elderly home-confinement program under First Step Act. Stay tuned for more updates.
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