Increased use of compassionate release could ease costs and crowding with minimal risks to public safety, experts say. But it remains off limits to many prisoners.
Compassionate release, or medical parole, describes a legal pathway for people who are incarcerated to be released because of severe illness. Almost every state has policies overseeing the release of ...
A man who was told he would serve out his entire life sentence in prison for killing a 2-year-old girl 45 years ago is seeking a compassionate release due to a severe medical condition. | Jeffrey D.
A man with a violent past is set for release from prison and the Yolo County District Attorney's Office is fighting back against the law that has opened the door to his freedom. Howard Wilbanks, 70, ...
WKYC- NBC Cleveland: Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, discusses the criminal justice concept known as compassionate release, an early release from prison for those deemed unlikely to be a risk ...
Instead of having a law in place, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation only has an agency policy that ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster County judge on Thursday denied a request for compassionate release from a man serving life in prison for shooting an Ephrata woman to death in 2015, the Lancaster County ...
NEW ORLEANS — The son of a late former chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court was denied his request for compassionate release from federal prison. He is serving a 10-year sentence for ...
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