A convicted pharmacist will get the chance to go home nearly two years before the end of his sentence.Robert Courtney will be transferred to home confinement on July 31, 2024, according to an email sent by the Department of Justice. In 2002, Courtney was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty. He admitted to diluting the prescription medications of 4,200 patients from 400 doctors. Some people received 1% of the dose they were prescribed. On April 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons sent an email to victim's families, saying Courtney would be transferred to a halfway house in Springfield on June 20. The email read in part, “This notice is to inform you that Robert Courtney has been approved for placement in a Community Corrections Center (CCC), otherwise known as a halfway house, and will transfer from this institution on June 20, 2024. After the transfer, the inmate will be located at Alpha House of Springfield in Springfield, Missouri.”Then, on April 17, the DOJ Federal Bureau of Prisons sent another email. This one said Courtney would instead move to home confinement. The email read in part, “This notice is to inform you that Robert Courtney has been approved for placement in a Community Corrections Center (CCC), otherwise known as a halfway house, and will transfer from this institution on July 31, 2024. After the transfer, the inmate will be located at his/her home on home confinement and monitored by Alpha House RRC in Springfield, Missouri.”Courtney is set to finish his sentence on May 2, 2026. "I think it's good because it will help him to re-acclimate,” his former counsel, Jeremy Gordon, said. Gordon said his early release is likely in part due to the First Step Act. The act allows inmates with a low chance of recommitting crimes to earn credits through different kinds of classes. Those credits can then be used to get out early."I think that's insane,” Santana Cummings said. Cummings' mother, Sherri Carrot, was 32 years old when doctors diagnosed her with cancer. It took less than a year for it to take her life. Cummings said her mother’s chemo treatments were filled by Robert Courtney. "They thought that she had a good chance of survival,” Cummings said. “I'm past the point of being sad. Like I'm angry, and I'm frustrated, and I feel like our justice system has really let us down.” She said Courtney is getting something his victims were never given — the chance to go home.In 2020, Courtney was to be moved to a halfway house, but local lawmakers called for him to remain in prison. The Justice Department then reversed its decision.