A recent appellate decision noted just how difficult it is to get compassionate release from federal prison even where there ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Prisons lacks clear standards on when to grant compassionate release to inmates with terminal illnesses and limited life expectancies, the Justice Department’s ...

The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill that would allow more people in state prison with serious health issues to be granted compassionate release.

Recently passed California AB 960 gives inmates with serious illnesses and other medical conditions new opportunities for resentencing and compassionate release. AB 960 attorney Aaron Spolin and his ...

Prisons are, in many respects, a microcosm of society, particularly in the United States. In 2030, the last baby boomer will turn 65, and one in five Americans will be older than 65. This aging ...

Dr. Mutulu Shakur is being denied a compassionate release despite being diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, according to The Intercept. Shakur, 71, has been given six months to live by doctors from the ...

COVID-19 did something that years of criminal justice reform had failed to do; cut prison populations. The CARES Act, enacted in April 2020 to face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed ...

Armand Coleman was 17 when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Although Coleman was legally a child when he was arrested, he was tried as an adult and sent to serve his time in an adult ...

Mistreatment of women inside a federal prison in Dublin, Calif., has been an open secret. It took years before prosecutors charged five people, including the warden and a chaplain, with crimes. Now ...

Federal prosecutors have been seeking to limit defendants' rights to win compassionate release from prison in plea negotiations across the country, a practice that advocates say undermines the intent ...