U.S. Prisons Flout Law by Keeping Inmates Past Release Date, A.C.L.U. Says
Vanessa Crowe, a 50-year-old grandmother serving a long federal prison term on drug charges, eagerly enrolled in programs to cut her time behind bars — and was told she was eligible for release in May under a landmark sentencing reform law passed in 2018.
But this year, as she prepared to leave a prison camp in Florida, Ms. Crowe got devastating news: She would remain incarcerated until mid-2025 because the Bureau of Prisons simply did not have a slot for her in a halfway house or in its home detention programs.
