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Ramos and Compean Released
Posted by Bigfoot on February 17th, 2009
As previously noted, on his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the sentences of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Their sentences were then scheduled to expire on March 20th. However, as reported by KFOX TV, they have been released earlier today, Ramos from Phoenix Federal Prison and Compean from a federal prison in Ohio. Americans For Legal Immigration has noted that KFOX had already been reporting that the two could be released earlier than March 20th. Until that day, they (but not their wives) will still have to keep a low profile.
Although former agents cannot talk to the media until after their official release from federal custody on March 20, KFOX did get an exclusive interview with Ramos’ wife, Monica, while they were at the airport in Phoenix.
UPDATE, via Stop The ACLU:
The El Paso Times has some more details.
Traci Billingsley, bureau of prisons spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the two men are out of prison and under the “supervision of the community corrections office for a period of community confinement.”
Community confinement means the sentenced person has to spend the last phrase of their sentence either in a halfway house or in home confinement.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 am
A least these guys get to be with their families and friends rather than locked in solitary to protect them against other prisoners.