With coronavirus outbreaks continuing to plague federal prisons, former Bristol council member Jodi Zils Gagne was released last week to continue her fraud sentence under home confinement.
In a brief memo to a judge, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Huang announced that the Bureau of Prisons had released Zils Gagne last Thursday from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury.
Zils Gagne, an attorney, still has more than 30 months to serve on her sentence for swindling clients while she served as their conservator. She is also under orders to pay $116,000 in restitution.
Zils Gagne had been confined since last July at the Danbury correctional center, one of several federal prisons hit hardest by persistent, widespread coronavirus outbreaks.