SCOTUS might send a bus-driving granddad back to prison on a technicality
Imagine doing everything right: getting out of prison, driving a city bus, spoiling the grandkids—and then the highest court in the land decides to undo it all on a literal technicality.
Meet Anthony Bailey. He got out of prison early under a compassionate release program. Since then, he has been living the most wholesome life imaginable, working as a city bus driver and being a loving grandfather.
But the Supreme Court just ruled that federal judges have been using the compassionate release law way too generously. Now, the government is trying to drag him and about a dozen others right back to a cell because of a semantic disagreement over what qualifies as an "extraordinary and compelling" reason to let someone out.
No new crimes, no probation violations. Just a bunch of guys in robes deciding that a dictionary definition is more important than actual, successful rehabilitation.
Nothing screams "effective justice system" quite like spending taxpayer money to lock up a working grandfather who is actively contributing to society.
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