federal compassionate release

Larry Langford, the former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was convicted in 2010 for public corruption and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Last November, the 72-year-old Langford, who is in failing health, was denied compassionate release by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In a document obtained by AL.com, the BOP explained its rationale…

The recent passage of the First Step Act provides a small number of benefits to a small number of federal prisoners. One provision within the Act, however, might turn out to be quite significant. Criminal The criminal justice reform organization Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) released a four-page document entitled “Compassionate Release and the First…

Federal prisoner Steve Cheatham was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer late last year.  He was given a few months to live. Prior to December 2018, that would mean that Cheatham could ask the Bureau of Prisons for a reduction in sentence–for compassionate release. The Bureau would then have slowly pushed paperwork around, and within a…