Kirkpatrick has served seven years of a 28-year sentence on racketeering, extortion, bribery and other charges related to several years as Detroit mayor.

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)…

Supporters in Detroit include State Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, who says Kilpatrick’s release may have been stopped because the Federal Bureau of Prisons moved out the warden where Kilpatrick was doing his time, Oakdale-1 in Louisiana. That personnel move was made on Friday, just after Kilpatrick was reportedly approved for release on home confinement to his mother who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

That prison has had more than 80 cases of COVID-19, including among eight staff and seven deaths. The reassignment of the warden made news across the south.

“How could this have happened under one Warden and then under a new Warden the decision was changed,” Detroit State Rep. Gay-Dagnogo asks.

She says she wants to know what happened and many discussions are happening behind the scenes.

Gay-Dagnogo says she went public on Friday that Kilpatrick’s release was happening because she says she had been told by people inside the Trump White House and by Kilpatrick’s family.