What One Texas Sheriff Thinks About the Largest Release of Federal Prisoners Ever
Sometime between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2, something unprecedented will happen at the nation's federal prisons: the largest one-time release of federal prisoners in U.S. history.
The first 6,000 of an expected 46,000 federal prison inmates will be released in that four day window. It's the result of a downward revision in mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders, a change that's being made retroactively.
According to the Washington Post, 2,000 inmates – one-third of the first inmates to be released – are, in the words of a justice department official, "foreign citizens who will be quickly deported."
A.J. "Andy" Louderback, Sheriff of Jackson County, Texas and Legislative Director of the Sheriff's Association of Texas, is raising a red flag. He says sheriffs across the state are always going to be concerned at the local level whenever there's this type of action by the federal government.
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