The US Supreme Court issued an Tuesday today denying the federal government’s request to block a plan to release elderly and low-risk prisoners of the Elkton Federal Correctional Institute (FCI-Elkton) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The plan was ordered by a judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on April 22 after inmates of FCI-Elkton filed suit requesting that certain categories of inmates be released from the prison, where nine inmates had already died from COVID-19.