President Biden made many bold promises to reform the criminal justice system during his 2020 presidential campaign. Today, many of those promises remain unfulfilled. However, he still has time to make a meaningful impact.

No doubt Biden is considering the use of a special power granted to the president in the Constitution — the power to grant clemency. Only the president can pardon someone convicted of a federal crime or commute their sentence.

To date, President Biden has made very little use of this authority. Since taking office he has pardoned 25 people and commuted the sentences of 131 people. Several notable professors have recently made the case for Biden to consider his legacy and grant pardons to several deserving categories of people. They are spot on in their assessments.

But there is one group they mentioned that seems like an easy decision for the president, and the first group President Biden pardons.

During the Pandemic, the Bureau of Prisons moved over 36,000 people to home confinement under the CARES Act. The CARES Act expanded the amount of time individuals could be placed in........

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