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                                    Do You Have Resources For Compassionate Release of Inmates?

      

                    
          
    Do you have resources for compassionate release of inmates?
COMPASSIONATE RELEASE: THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST STEP ACT AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC

**U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2022**

U.S. Sentencing Commission Compassionate Release Data Report

**U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2021**

Everywhere and Nowhere: Compassionate Release in the States

**Price, Mary, 2018**

The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America’s Aging Prison Population

**The Osborne Association, 2018**

A Question of Compassion: Medical Parole in New York State

**Vera Institute of Justice, 2018**

CA Inmates Can Appeal Compassionate Release Denials: Court Ruled 'Substantial Rights' of Inmates Affected by Adverse Rulings [Article]

**The Associated Press, 2015**

An Informational Guide to Compassionate Release in Pennsylvania

**Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, 2014**

**Aging Prisoners: A Brief Report of Key Legal and Policy Dilemmas**

**Doron, Israel Issi and Helene Love, 2013.**

The problems surrounding the imprisonment of elderly offenders are examined. The key legal and policy challenges concerning older prisoners covered are: early and compassionate release; segregation or integration; the meaning of imprisonment in old age and its legal implications; fixed versus tailored sentences; and if prison is the right place to confine older offenders. The authors conclude with a discussion of whether there is a need for “age specific” legal policy for older inmates.

Resource ID: 027574

Compassionate Release/Reduction of Sentence: Procedures for Implementation of 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(A) and 4205(g)

**United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP), 2013**

This Program Statement explains how the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) determines and implements requests from inmates for compassionate release or reduction in sentence.

Document ID: 027562

The Federal Bureau of Prisons' Compassionate Release Program

**U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Evaluation and Inspections Division, 2013**

Dying to be Free: An Analysis of Wisconsin's Restructured Compassionate Release Statute

**Murphy, Nicole M. Marquette Law Review, 2012**

Balancing Punishment and Compassion for Seriously Ill Prisoners [Article]

**Williams, Brie A., Rebecca L. Sudore, Robert Greifinger and Sean R. Morrison, 2011**

Anyone involved with the compassionate release process needs to read this article.

Document ID: 025212

Compassionate Release for the Terminally Ill

**Hawaii Department of Public Safety, Corrections Administration Policy and Procedures, 2011**

An Act Regarding the Operation of County Jails and the State Board of Corrections

**Maine Legislature, 2009**

This act covers the release from prison or jail of terminally ill inmates into supervised community confinement.

Document ID: 023951 Return to top

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