Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week after failed bid for home confinement
Political pundit Steven Bannon is set to be released from prison next week – just in time for the presidential election.Bannon had sought to spend the final 10 days of his 120-day sentence under home confinement, but the firebrand learned this week that his bid was unsuccessful, meaning he’ll remain behind bars until Oct.29, according to reports.
The host of “Steve Bannon’s War Room” applied for the slightly earlier release based on First Step Act credits, which he accrued while incarcerated for contempt of Congress.The First Step Act is a Trump-era criminal justice reform initiative intended to cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve federal prison conditions.On Monday, the Bureau of Prisons informed Bannon’s lawyers that their client must finish out his sentence behind bars, according to a letter obtained by CNN.And on Tuesday, Trump-appointed District Court Judge Carl Nichols ruled, “the Court concludes that the relief the Defendant seeks is not warranted,” the Daily Mail reported.
Bannon, 70, slammed the Harris-Biden administration in a statement last week to The National Pulse.“Kamala Harris is the ‘Queen of Mass Incarcerations.’ Detested by Black and Hispanic men who are refusing to turn out and vote for her.
She has done nothing to implement President Trump’s heroic First Step Act, in fact welcoming hundreds of thousands of hardened illegal migrant criminals while allowing U.S.citizens eligible for early release to rot in prison.
No mass deportations, but continual mass incarcerations,” he wrote.The longtime Trump ally was sent to the Danbury Correctional Institution in July following his failure to respond to a Congressional subpoena to testify in front of the January 6th congressional committee.The radio host was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: one count for refusing to testify to the Jan.
6 committee and a second for refusing to provide documents to that committee.Bannon is appealing the guil...