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Disgraced Detriot, Michigan mayor Kwame Kilpatrick hoped to get a compassionate release from jail given the COVID-19 virus cutting a swath through the prison system.
But, at least for the moment, Kilpatrick will remain in federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana.
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Supporters from the Ebony Foundation, an offshoot of Ebony magazine that advocates on behalf of prison reform, first announced that Kilpatrick would be released last week.
The Department of Justice statement read:
On Tuesday, May 26, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reviewed and denied inmate Kwame Kilpatrick for home confinement.
By contrast, Detroit’s Black Mafia Family leader Terry ‘Southwest T’ Flenory, 50, was granted a compassionate release earlier this month from a Kentucky prison to home confinement.
