Paul Manafort's lawyers have asked for the former Trump campaign chairman to be moved out of prison due to potential health risks from the coronavirus.
Manafort is hoping prison officials will consider letting him stay under home confinement with his wife in Northern Virginia either while the pandemic continues or even for the four more years he's set to stay behind bars, his lawyers said in a letter to the federal Bureau of Prisons Monday afternoon.Fear of coronavirus proliferating behind bars has consumed inmates across the country, and federal prisons have reported in total 13 inmate deaths from Covid-19 as of Tuesday morning.
Still, the Justice Department has outlined broadly how some non-violent offenders essentially could be released early by being transferred to home confinement if they have a high risk of illness and good behavior, and especially if they're at prisons hardest hit by the virus.The Bureau of Prisons has not yet responded, another Manafort attorney Todd Blanche said Tuesday morning.Manafort has been in jail since June 2018. He is serving a 7.
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