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- Compassionate release from FMC Butner
- Compassionate release from FMC Carswell
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- Compassionate release from FMC Lexington
- Compassionate release from FMC Fort Worth
- Compassionate release from MCFP Springfield
- Compassionate release from FCI Aliceville
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- Compassionate release from FCC Coleman
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Original articles
- Compassionate release trends in 2020: what the data shows
- Judge cuts 74.5-year stacked sentence to time served (2021)
- Judge grants release to 65-year-old man in wheelchair (2021)
- Rehabilitation and health risks lead to release (2021)
- Judge cuts 146-year sentence but denies release (2021)
- Man with kidney disease freed over COVID risk (2021)
- Judge cuts 57-year stacked sentence to time served (2021)
- Judge grants release so man can get cancer treatment (2021)
- Judge frees 66-year-old diabetic man from FCI Lompoc (2021)
- Man with thyroid cancer granted compassionate release (2021)
- Judge frees man early to attend son’s funeral (2021)
- Judge cuts sentence in 1991 Boston bombing case (2021)
- Release denied despite repeated requests (2021)
- Man with sex offense and cancer granted release (2021)
- Judge dismisses release bid after man refused vaccine (2021)
- COVID-19 survivor with cancer granted release (2021)
- Fifth Circuit sends denied release request back (2021)
- Judge frees man with heart disease from 60-year term (2021)
- Health risks and rehab win release at Fort Dix (2021)
- Man with kidney failure sent home to finish sentence (2021)
- Judge cuts 1,117-month stacked sentence to 397 months
- Why filing the prison’s fill-in form can backfire
- Judge frees woman serving life over health risks (2021)
- Judge cuts stacked 80-year sentence to 300 months (2021)
- Judge cuts bank robber’s sentence by 12 months (2021)
- Man sentenced at 24 to 112 years granted release (2021)
- Life sentence cut to 300 months over COVID risk (2021)
- Rehab and health problems win release in Virginia (2021)
- Judge frees 70-year-old man with kidney failure (2021)
- Can you get compassionate release after going to trial?
- Judge grants release to 72-year-old after stroke (2021)
- Release denied over violent bank robberies (2021)
- Judge frees man after 1,800 hours of prison classes (2021)
- Judge grants release over harsh stacked sentence (2021)
- Release granted after wife’s death to care for child (2021)
- Man with child pornography conviction granted release (2021)
- Man with end-stage kidney disease granted release (2021)
- Bernie Madoff dies in federal custody at FCI Butner
- Mother of four granted release to care for children (2021)
- Education and rehabilitation help win release (2021)
- Father of three granted release for health and rehab (2021)
- Judge grants release to man with spreading cancer (2021)
- Judge grants release in fraud case over COVID risk (2021)
- Release granted after prison left symptoms untreated (2021)
- Judge cuts life sentence to time served in Arkansas (2021)
- Man with asthma and hypertension granted release (2021)
- Judge reduces 20-year sentence after rehabilitation (2021)
- Father released to care for his sick mother and sons (2021)
- Judge cuts 38.5-year bank robbery sentence to 20.5 (2021)
- Mother of young children granted release (2021)
- Release granted to HIV-positive man after COVID-19 (2021)
- Stroke victim granted compassionate release (2021)
- Cancer survivor granted compassionate release (2021)
- COVID-19 survivor granted compassionate release (2021)
- Judge frees 70-year-old serving two life sentences
- COVID-19 risk leads to release for 60-year-old man (2021)
- Man with several health problems granted release (2021)
- Do you need a lawyer for compassionate release?
- Tenth Circuit widens compassionate release in Maumau (2021)
- COVID-19 risk helps win release from FCI Lompoc (2021)
- Judge grants release to woman after 30-year drug plea (2021)
- Judge grants release to father of autistic son (2021)
- Judge weighs quality of life, frees ill 63-year-old (2021)
- Release granted to 67-year-old man with COPD (2021)
- Judge grants release to man with asthma at Lompoc (2021)
- Poor prison medical care leads to release (2021)
- Judge grants release to man with HIV over COVID risk (2021)
- Man with diabetes granted compassionate release (2021)
- Can sex offenders get compassionate release?
- Transplant patient freed as COVID hits FCI Butner (2021)
- Judge grants release to man with Parkinson’s disease (2021)
- Judge grants BOP motion to free terminally ill man (2021)
- RDAP and job training help man win early release (2021)
- Rehabilitation and health win man release in Ohio (2021)
- Should I hire a lawyer for compassionate release?
- Who is eligible for compassionate release?
- Does rehabilitation help with compassionate release?
- How the First Step Act opened compassionate release
- Can a long sentence be a reason for compassionate release?
- Why the BOP rarely granted compassionate release
- FAMM report: how the First Step Act changed release
- Judge orders Lompoc to send at-risk prisoners home (2020)
- Judge frees woman after prison delayed cancer care (2019)
- Ex-Massachusetts speaker speaks out on prison health care
- Court ignores BOP 18-month rule for man with terminal cancer
- Why older prisoners rarely get compassionate release
- Judge frees 71-year-old man in a wheelchair (2019)
- Release granted when prosecutors took no position
- Court recommends transfer instead of compassionate release
- Maine court: the BOP doesn’t have the final word (2020)
- Eight ways to shorten long prison sentences
- BOP denies release to gravely ill ex-Birmingham mayor
- Dying man granted release under First Step Act dies (2019)
- How the First Step Act changed compassionate release
- Sample petition for a “New Law” elderly federal prisoner
- Compassionate release case studies: what helps and hurts
- Compassionate release denied? Common questions answered
- Who qualifies for federal compassionate release?
- Sample compassionate release letter for a terminal illness
- The cost of keeping elderly and sick people in prison
- Compassionate release examples and sample petitions
- Compassionate release FAQs: who qualifies and how to apply
- Compassionate release statistics: how many are approved?
- What the warden reviews in a compassionate release request
- How the BOP handles a compassionate release request
- How compassionate release has changed over the years
- Compassionate release statistics: how often the BOP said yes
- Child caregiver died or disabled: release FAQs
- Debilitated medical condition: compassionate release FAQs
- Release to care for a disabled spouse or partner: FAQs
- Compassionate release for elderly prisoners: FAQs
- Compassionate release for a terminal illness: FAQs
- Sample petition: release to care for a child (caregiver)
- Sample petition: debilitated medical condition
- When the BOP denies compassionate release
- Sample compassionate release letter for an older inmate
- Sample elderly compassionate release petition (2018)
- Do you need a lawyer for compassionate release? FAQs
- Compassionate release law and policy: common questions
- How not to seek compassionate release: a case study
- Sample release letter to care for a disabled spouse
- Six people denied compassionate release by the BOP
- Case study: woman with ALS granted compassionate release
- Federal compassionate release: background for reporters
- Compassionate release in federal prison: who qualifies