After initial reports last week that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick would most likely be freed from jail, it turns out that’s not the case, according to The Detroit News.
A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Detroit News earlier this week that officials had reviewed Kilpatrick’s case and refused to release him to home confinement.
“On Tuesday, May 26, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reviewed and denied inmate Kwame Kilpatrick for home confinement,” the Bureau of Prisons office of public affairs wrote in an email to The Detroit News.
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Whitsett also told the Detroit Free Press that she’d confirmed with the White House that Kilpatrick is among 3,000 inmates who will be released.
Kilpatrick, who was convicted and jailed for multiple public corruption crimes, is currently in a federal prison in Louisiana after he was convicted in 2013 of 24 charges including extortion, mail fraud, and tax violations.
