Something to ponder: ‘Old, sick and incarcerated’ There were 4623 incarcerated people over 65 in federal prisons during the first week of May.

Until May 12, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s one-time campaign manager, was one of them.

The 71-year-old petitioned the court for release to home confinement because of his age, heart condition, and “fear of coronavirus.”

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence.

Recently developed federal guidelines suggest at-home confinement for those at risk who have served more than half of their sentence or have less than eighteen months of jail time left to serve.