*Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not be released on home confinement amid the COVID-19 outbreak, contrary to what supporters claimed last week.
Kilpatrick has been incarcerated since 2013 after being sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for multiple public corruption crimes, including racketeering conspiracy. He has long argued that he was wrongfully convicted and reportedly requested a pardon from Trump’s White House after losing all appeals.
Supporters of Kilpatrick claimed he was granted early release from prison due to a coronavirus outbreak at his prison in Louisiana.Â
As noted by the Detroit Free Press, State Rep. Karen Whitsett said she learned of Kilpatrick’s pending release from Trump during his recent visit to Michigan.Â
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— Detroit Free Press (@freep) May 27, 2020
“He said that he was being released,” Whitsett said, adding: “I’m elated for him … An out is an out … He’s done his time. And I think, ‘My God, when is long enough long enough.’ “
But a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said this week that officials refuse to release the disgraced politician to home confinement, detroitnews.com reports.Â
“On Tuesday, May 26, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reviewed and denied inmate Kwame Kilpatrick for home confinement,” the Bureau of Prisons office of public affairs wrote in an email to The News, according to the report.Â
Detroit U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider previously noted that Kilpatrick received a “fair and just sentence that reflected the seriousness of his crimes and the devastating impact they had on our community.”
“As the elected mayor, he ran a criminal enterprise that corrupted wide swaths of city government in the early 2000s — at a time when city residents desperately needed honest and effective city services,” Schneider said in a statement back in February when Kilpatrick sought clemency from Trump.
“My office is willing to provide any assistance to the pardon attorney to explain what really happened in Detroit under Mr. Kilpatrick’s watch, and why his conduct justified the sentence he received.”
Kilpatrick’s release date is January 2037.
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