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 ...

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 ...

Rudolph Puana wants his 90- month sentence reduced because he has a tumor and needs surgery. The Hawaii Island medical doctor ...

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; ...

Commentary Compassionate Release: A Broken Law That Needs Mending Every state—with the exception of Iowa—has some form of compassionate release.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Compassionate release became a life-or-death lottery for thousands of federal inmates during the pandemic By CNN Newsource Published September 30, 2021 5:05 AM ...