
There are prisoners who are on home confinement on CARES Act. The CARES Act, part of the law to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 epidemic, allowed health-compromised prisoners to serve their sentence on home confinement. That program was discontinued in April 2023 but many prisoners are still on home confinement. When Trump was in office the first time, his Office of Legal Counsel issued a memorandum calling for the return of those prisoners on home confinement back to prison once the pandemic was over. In December 2021, Biden’s Office of Legal Counsel issued its own memorandum giving the BOP the ability to decide if prisoners would be returned .... none were. There are now only a few hundred prisoners out on CARES Act but many of them have years to go on their sentence. It is uncertain if a new memorandum will be issued by Trumps administration but he made a statement the first time around.