Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week [Video]

Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early.The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that his release date will remain Oct. 29, as originally set. That means he will serve his full 120-day sentence for contempt of Congress behind bars.Since learning in recent days he may be eligible to move to home confinement, Bannon has accused the BOP of political interference, and his attorneys have been advocating both in court and to prison officials for leniency.The acting warden of the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, wrote to Bannon’s lawyers on Monday that there wasn’t enough time to arrange for Bannon to move to home confinement in Washington, D.C. Home confinement was a possibility for …