The compassionate release process, expanded by Congress in a landmark 2018 criminal justice reform bill, has acted as a safety valve for the federal prison system during the pandemic, ...

A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) shows that "compassionate release" of federal prisoners rose dramatically in 2020, mainly because ...

Federal inmates who committed their offenses before Nov. 1, 1987, can’t seek compassionate release, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.

Compassionate release laws at the state and federal levels should make dementia an explicit criterion for early release. Facilities should also screen older patients for dementia on a regular ...

Inmates seeking compassionate release face laws not built for COVID-19 by Kelan Lyons May 7, 2020 @ 5:00 am Updated March 5, 2022 @ 12:29 am. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

News 9th Circuit More Likely to Grant Compassionate Release During Pandemic Than Other Circuits, Report Says The report found that six circuits granted relief above the country's overall rate ...

Two convicted killers who were granted compassionate release in January while hospitalized with COVID-19, and on ventilators, were sent back to prison Monday after recovering from the virus ...

In his order granting Byse compassionate release, Story found that Byse was particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and had served 87% of his sentence.

By Casey Tolan, CNN The assessment was dire: Horacio Estrada-Elias had "less than 18 months" left to live, his prison doctor wrote last year in a document ...

A Justice Policy Institute report exposes Maryland’s so-called compassionate release as a failure — keeping aging, overwhelmingly Black individuals behind bars until they are near death, ...

Eugene Facon, 57, serving life without the possibility of parole, is among more than 900 inmates sentenced in D.C. Superior Court who have asked that court for pandemic-related “compassionate ...