The Federal Bureau of Prisons lists Wednesday as the \u201crelease date\u201d for convicted former Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright, who has spent more than a year out of federal prison but under the supervision of an office that oversees halfway houses and home confinement.<\/p>\n
Courtright pleaded guilty July 2, 2019, to criminal conspiracy, bribery and extortion for pay-to-play shakedowns of companies and vendors that did business with the city.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced Oct. 2, 2020, to seven years and incarcerated shortly thereafter at a federal prison in Morgantown, West Virginia. It\u2019s unclear when the former mayor was released from prison, but as of August 2024 online public data on inmates maintained by the Bureau of Prisons listed Courtright as being under the supervision of RRM Philadelphia, a residential reentry management field office within the bureau.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Prisons contracts with residential reentry centers, also known as halfway houses, to provide assistance to inmates who are nearing release, with some under home confinement. While the bureau\u2019s inmate-search tool only lists the RRM field office responsible for an inmate, not specific reentry centers, federal court documents Courtright filed in March said he was \u201cserving the remainder of his sentence on home confinement under the supervision of the Residential Reentry Center in Scranton.\u201d<\/p>\n