Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence.

I’m not as outraged at Manafort’s early release as I am disturbed about the other 4,622 elderly inmates, most who lack the resources and access that Manafort had.

Nearly forty percent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American, many serving very long sentences for drug-related crimes.

Parole was eliminated in federal prison in the mid-1980s, allowing “good behavior” only after 85 percent of a sentence has been served.

Manafort had a lot less to fear, at his minimum-security prison, than a Black inmate might.