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No Early Release for Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

am800-news-kwame-kilpatrick-getty-1.9022999 DETROIT - OCTOBER 28: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (C) appears in Wayne County Circuit Court for his sentencing October 28, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick will spend 4 months in jail as part of a plea deal he accepted back in September in which he plead guilty to two felonies and no contest to a felony assault charge. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) (Bill Pugliano/Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (C) appears in Wayne County Circuit Court for his sentencing October 28, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images))

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Kwame Kilpatrick was looking for an early release from prison due to COVID19

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons is not going to release disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

The announcement late Tuesday night comes after his family says they'd been told last week he would be out by mid-June.

The decision denies Kilpatrick's request for early release from prison and home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is currently serving a 28-year sentence after being convicted on 24 federal felony counts in 2013.

With files from MetroSource