The Criteria for Federal Compassionate Release can be confusing. Compassionate Release is a process for federal prisoners that allows inmates to request immediate release traditionally on medical grounds but can also be achieved on humanitarian grounds. Historically,...
Compassionate Release is a process for federal prisoners that allows inmates to request immediate release on medical or humanitarian grounds. However, many people are unaware of a change in the law that allows prisoners the ability to file for Compassionate Release on...
Report Shows the Need for Compassionate Release Last year, the Marshall Project and the New York Times released a report detailing the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ indifference toward the compassionate release of aging and dying prisoners. Providing prisoners with...
FAMM Reveals a Need for Change A recent report done by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) outlines the newest compassionate release guidelines released with the First Step Act. The biggest change? Taking the final decision on compassionate release away from...
Last week, Judge Consuelo Marshall ruled that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must release low-risk offenders from Lompoc’s prison complex to home confinement. This decision came after the revelation that nearly 1,000 inmates have been infected by the novel...
Seeking Compassionate Release Based on Inadequate Medical Care Unsurprisingly, federal prisons often provide inadequate medical care for their inmates. When prisoners petition for compassionate release based on a medical condition, the court considers the quality of...
BOP’s Inmate Healthcare Policies Are Inhumane. In his first interview since his release from federal prison, Sal DiMasi has begun to speak out on the way that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) treats inmate healthcare. The former Massachusetts Speaker of the House is...
Bringing Home Both Sick and Terminal Inmates The First Step Act of 2018 provides the requirements for compassionate release petitions. Either a defendant or the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may file a motion to have the term of the defendant’s prison...
The Elderly Inmate Dilemma Nearly every state and federal prison in the United States is now facing a steady rise in elderly inmate populations. Prisoners who age behind bars do so at an accelerated rate. Oftentimes, inmates find themselves diagnosed with illnesses...
States Seek Policy Updates for Early Release Program Pennsylvania and Virginia are on the brink of serious financial and ethical problems in their state prisons. As the prison population grows older, more inmates require expensive healthcare that the state cannot...
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