Thread by @JoshuaBHoe

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Over 4,000 incarcerated people were sent to home confinement from federal prison as a result of #COVID19

For months, many of us have been pushing for @POTUS and @VP to #KeepThemHome before their grace period expires

Unfortunately, recent reporting suggests that @POTUS is going to potentially commute ONLY those who were non-violent drug offenders and had less than four years left on their sentences

Here is that reporting

nytimes.com/2021/08/30/us/…

Look, I understand, for many of the folks on home confinement, this would seem like a win, and it would be a win for every one of them.

The problem is all of the people who are on home confinement were pre-screened and present virtually no risk of recidivism

These are folks who have come home, remained crime free, rebuilt their lives, found jobs, places to live, and done everything they can do to reconnect and change their story and contribute to society

It would be brutally cruel to send them back

There is NO reason to make this complicated.....why in the world is the President parsing this?

@POTUS, Why is a white collar criminal out on home confinement more dangerous than someone who abused drugs?

And, @POTUS, what makes someone with three years and eleven months on a sentence okay to commute while someone with one more month is not (despite the fact they have already been home for a LONG time and done NOTHING wrong).

This is not non-euclidean geometry, #KeepThemHome

These folks have done exactly what everyone dreams people returning from incarceration will do, they have - despite long odds and massive reentry challenges - SUCCEEDED

WHY IN THE WORLD ARE WE SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY?????? #KeepThemHome

I get that not everyone appreciates nuance, but this is political triangulation (Bill Clinton style) and it will come at the expense of real human beings....it is literally picking and choosing winners and losers based on political calculations instead of on evidence or reason

Meet some of these folks, my friend @KevinARing shared a bunch of their stories in his thread earlier today ....why are we contemplating sending them back to prison?

What purpose does this serve, certainly not public safety

https://twitter.com/KevinARing/status/1432432178693091328?s=20

I have no personal enmity towards the President, I just have to call out political triangulation when I see it....we need to put PEOPLE before POLITICS

In addition, this is yet another example of why commutations MUST be moved out of the DOJ (as @POTUS promised would happen)

There is literally no criminal justice bar lower than this one....If he cannot stick the landing on this one, I really do not know what to say....It will be great for the people he commutes, but heartbreaking and cruel to those forced to return to prison for no reason

Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE needs to message @POTUS and @VP and say #KeepThemALLHome