Coalition Calls for Consideration of COVID-19 Safer Detention Act

July 24, 2020–Due Process Institute joined a bipartisan coalition of national and local groups calling on the U.S. Senate to allow consideration of the bipartisan COVID-19 Safe Detention Act sponsored by Senators Durbin, Grassley, and Cramer as part of the next COVID-19 response package. This legislation will reduce overcrowding in federal prisons by streamlining the individualized determination of compassionate release and home detention motions for those who are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 given their age or medical condition.