> What was the purpose of this clemency grant? I know it is something about people who were granted home arrest during covid, but I don't follow why that group

> What was the purpose of this clemency grant? I know it is something about people who were granted home arrest during covid, but I don't follow why that group of people was selected as deserving clemency, as opposed to say people who where forced to stay in jail during covid. I'm completely missing something. I know there was a political fight angle to it: apparently Republicans were planning on passing a law to send all the people who'd be released to home confinement during COVID back to prison. I believe clemency grant was part of an effort to block that. Now why it was such a priority to keep those convicts out of prison, I have no idea.