AG Garland's directive reverses a Trump administration decision that would have required thousands of convicts to return to their cells.
"Thousands of people on home confinement have reconnected with their families, have found gainful employment, and have followed the rules," Garland said.
The department's Office of Legal Counsel said in January that federal law required many of those inmates to return. But a memorandum issued Tuesday said a better reading of the law is that it"does not require that prisoners in extended home confinement be returned en masse to correctional facilities when the emergency period ends."
Justice Department figures show that more than 35,000 inmates were released to home confinement. The nearly 3,000 of those with longer sentences remaining would have had to return to prison under the previous policy, which declared that home detention was meant to be temporary.
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