While opportunities and circumstances to request compassionate release from prison grew in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the use of this process to ease overcrowding during the public health crisis.
Host Matthew Adams, Co-Chair of the White-Collar Criminal Defense & Regulatory Compliance Practice Group, is joined by colleague Marissa Koblitz Kingman to explain the history and use of the early release process and forecast how the COVID-19 pandemic – which in some states resulted See more +
While opportunities and circumstances to request compassionate release from prison grew in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the use of this process to ease overcrowding during the public health crisis.
Host Matthew Adams, Co-Chair of the White-Collar Criminal Defense & Regulatory Compliance Practice Group, is joined by colleague Marissa Koblitz Kingman to explain the history and use of the early release process and forecast how the COVID-19 pandemic – which in some states resulted in a reduction in the prison population of more than 30% – could permanently change the sentencing system.
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