DETROIT – Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is being quarantined at a federal prison while awaiting a likely release in June, which would be years before he was scheduled to finish his 28-year sentence for corruption, a pastor said Friday.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons declined to comment about Kilpatrick, saying only that he remains in custody at the prison in Oakdale, Louisiana.
Federal prosecutors in Detroit said they had no information about the possible release. The Rev. Keyon Payton, who has urged President Donald Trump to shorten Kilpatrick’s sentence, said Kilpatrick now is being granted relief under a federal policy that gives officials discretion to move some inmates because of the coronavirus pandemic. “To my understanding,