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https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/02/19/5-stories-on-compassionate-release-from-prison/
5 Stories on Compassionate Release From Prison
Feb 23, 2025 - There are five times the number of older incarcerated people than there were 30 years ago. PJP writers wonder: Why not let them out?
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/justices-evaluate-limits-of-the-compassionate-release-statute/
Justices evaluate limits of the compassionate-release statute - SCOTUSblog
Nov 14, 2025 - In Fernandez v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, argued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes permissible grounds for a...
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/the-justices-to-consider-compassionate-release-statute/
The justices to consider compassionate-release statute - SCOTUSblog
Nov 11, 2025 - The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in two back-to-back cases posing basic questions about the breadth of the...
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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/31-000-prisoners-sought-compassionate-release-during-covid-19-the-bureau-of-prisons-approved-36
Federal Prisons Deny Compassionate Release During Pandemic | The Marshall Project
Jun 11, 2021 - As the pandemic worsened inside federal prisons, officials granted fewer releases.
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