Nearly 3,100 federal inmates will walk out of prison as a provision of the sweeping criminal justice reform act passed by Congress takes effect
The mass release -- the largest since the First Step Act was signed into law after a rare bipartisan push last year -- applies mostly to drug offenders and inmates serving sentences for weapons charges. It was initiated by a recalculation of the number of days inmates accrue each year for good behavior that was applied retroactively under the new law.
Some 900 prisoners will be transferred into state or immigration custody as a result of a detainer placed on them -- including 650 inmates that will be moved to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and entered into deportation proceedings in accordance with their sentences, a Justice Department official said. The Bureau of Prisons has coordinated with immigration authorities and local law enforcement ahead of the release, the official said.
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