{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-demands-bureau-prisons-immediately-release-steve-bannon-danbury-fci", "Rep. Ogles Demands Bureau of Prisons Immediately Release Steve Bannon from Danbury FCI and Comply with First Step Act", "2024-10-24", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Andrew Ogles", "O000175", "ogles.house.gov", "ogles", "https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "By: Tom Pappert\n\n\"Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) demanded the release of former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a Thursday letter to Biden-Harris administration Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director Colette Peters that was obtained by The Tennessee Star.\"\n\nOgles accused the federal agency of \u201cwillfully facilitating the political persecution of the Democrat Party\u2019s political opponents,\u201d through its refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Bannon, and demanded Peters take immediate actions to secure the former Trump adviser\u2019s early release from prison.\n\nThe Tennessee congressman sent the letter after The Star obtained a confirmation from the acting warden at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, acknowledging Bannon accrued good time credits that would ordinarily be applied toward supervised release or home confinement under the FSA, the Trump-era criminal justice reform.\n\nActing Warden Darek Puzio acknowledged Bannon\u2019s good time credits in his Friday letter Bannon\u2019s attorneys, but declared them moot due to the short amount time left on the former Trump official\u2019s sentence.\n\nBannon was convicted in 2022 after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated January 6.\n\nOgles wrote in his Thursday letter to Peters, \u201cDespite retaining eligibility for home confinement, the Bureau of Prisons chose nto to ensure a just, post-incarceration placement outcome for Steve Bannon,\u201d and accused the federal agency of \u201cbaselessly\u201d extending Bannon\u2019s sentence because of his \u201cprominent role in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement,\u201d before referencing reporting about Bannon\u2019s incarceration by The Star:\n\nIn a letter obtained by the Tennessee Star on Monday, the Bureau of Prisons acknowledged that Steve Bannon would not be afforded the 10 days of good time credit he is entitled to under the First Step Act, as the Regional Reentry Management Office maintains it cannot process home confinement placements in under 30 days. While this bureaucratic explanation may be sufficient for an oftentimes complacent legacy media, millions of Americans will nevertheless see through this disingenuous explanation and raise questions as to why the Bureau is unnecessarily \u2013 and perhaps even illegally \u2013 imprisoning Mr. Bannon until only days before the 2024 general election.\u201d\n\nOgles ultimately accused the federal agency of failing to uphold the FSA during Bannon\u2019s prison sentence, and demanded cooperation in arranging the former Trump adviser\u2019s immediate release.\n\n\u201cYour agency could have assisted Mr. Bannon and his team in securing a pre-release custodial arrangement; instead, for reasons we could only hope to chalk up to the typical incompetence of the Washington bureaucrat, he is now being forced to forego a benefit afforded to him under the law,\u201d wrote Ogles.\n\nHe concluded by noting his expectation of Peters\u2019 \u201cfull cooperation in facilitating the immediate pre-release custodial arrangement for Mr. Bannon, in compliance with the First Step Act.\u201d\n\nThe Star contacted Peters on Thursday to ask whether she intended to comply with Ogles\u2019 letter, but did not receive an immediate response.\n\nBannon, without action from Peters, remains scheduled to be released from prison on October 29, just six days before Election Day.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-demands-bureau-prisons-immediately-release-steve-bannon-danbury-fci"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9251357987523079, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}