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.”
Bannon reported to prison for his four-month sentence July 1 after the Supreme Court declined to postpone the sentence pending his appeal.
He was convicted in 2022 on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. A federal appeals court upheld the conviction in May.
Bannon called Vice President Kamala Harris the “Queen of Mass Incarcerations” in a statement to the National Pulse on Friday, saying she is”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 US citizens eligible for early release to rot in prison,” he said. “No mass deportations, but continual mass incarcerations.”
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