Months since incarcerated people were sent home to serve out their sentences due to the spread of COVID-19, thousands are now facing the possibility of returning back to prison. Of those facing the unknown at home in Texas is Kendrick Fulton, Sr. who's been surrounded by his close family members for the past 10 months as a result of the COVID-19 Prisoner Release Plan . Last year, The Marshall Project reported that only 7% of low-risk Black male incarcerated people would be considered for release, per an investigation. Those who did go home were taunted when just 15 days before President Joe Biden took office, Donald Trump ’s Justice Department penned a memo forcing roughly 4,500 incarcerated people back to prison after the emergency period ended, Axios reported. During an interview with Blavity, Fulton, a first-time offender who was released Sept. 2020 after serving 17 years behind bars, said the BOP saw him fit for home confinement based on his progress despite being considered a...
