“Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program”
The title of this post is the title of a one-page flyer (which is partially reprinted and linked below) that I received from a helpful reader. The flyer provides a few details concerning a new federal prisoner release program that comes out of last year’s passage of the Second Chance Act. Here is part of the text of the flyer:
Beginning February 5, 2009, the Bureau of Prisons is implementing a two-year pilot program called the Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program (“the Program”). The Program is required as part of the Second Chance Act of 2007, Section 231(g), and will involve re-designating certain elderly inmates to home detention for the final portion of their prison sentences….
The Program has many eligibility criteria [including as requirements that you] are 65 years old or older… [and] have served 10 years or more on your current sentence … [and] have served 75% or more of your current sentence … [and] have a suitable home in which to reside.