A divided federal appeals court ruled that a policy adopted in 2023 by the U.S. Sentencing Commission which allowed judges to ...

Louis “Bobby” Manna, 95, who once plotted to whack John Gotti will be allowed to die at home with his family, after a federal ...

Mark Leno, who authored California’s medical parole law when he was a Democratic state senator, criticized prison officials ...

California has ceased its court-ordered medical parole program, instead deciding to keep critically ill prisoners within the ...

The US Sentencing Commission’s compassionate release policy provision for “unusually long sentences,” added in 2023, can’t stand, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Known as the Richard “Mouse” Smith Compassionate Release Act, Senate Bill 10 would remove the Board of Parole from the sentence modification process, alongside additional circumstances in which an ...

A federal judge has denied compassionate early release for a man convicted of running a fraudulent wind farm scheme who now ...

NEW YORK — A 95-year-old mobster who once plotted to whack John Gotti will be allowed to die at home with his family, after a federal judge granted the ailing wiseguy compassionate release.

Prisoners granted compassionate release have their sentences reduced and are released into society, while those on medical parole remain technically in custody. “There were multiple ...