Steve Bannon Eligible For Home Confinement But Prison Couldn’t Process His Release In Time, Warden Says

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is now eligible for home confinement, but the prison was unable to process his request due to his short sentence, the warden wrote Tuesday.

Though Bannon has 10 time credits under the First Step Act that could have allowed his release from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, to home confinement on Oct. 19, his sentence is too short to secure approval, Acting Warden Darek Puzio told Bannon’s attorneys in a letter. Bannon is set to be released when his full sentence is up on Oct. 29.

“The Regional Reentry Management Office overseeing your client’ s release area advised their Residential Reentry Centers, which monitor home confinement placements, that they will not accept placements under 30 days,” Puzio wrote.

Bannon’s attorneys asked the judge Monday to grant Bannon’s request for early release in light of the warden’s admission.

“But for that bureaucratic processing delay, Mr. Bannon presumably would have been released to home confinement two days ago,” his attorneys wrote. “There is no reason for Mr. Bannon to remain in prison despite earning those credits.”

A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation the bureau “does not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual.”

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