Both Federal and State prisons are mishandling the pandemic that is being caused by the novel coronavirus due to prison conditions.
Category: COVID-19
COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can trigger what doctors call a respiratory tract infection.
Many of you will be able to use the text of 18 USC § 3582(c)(1)(A) in order to file your motions after 30 days of reaching out to the BOP.
In Ladson, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a compassionate release for a person seeking covid-19 relief.
United States vs. Kelly is important because he had no CDC risk factors and was seeking to bypass his administrative remedies.
On April 22, 2020, the Acting Assistant Director of the Correctional Programs Division and the Assistant Director of the Reentry Services Division for the BOP released a memorandum in regard to placing inmates on home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This memorandum introduced some new guidelines to the previously existing order.
The Barr memorandum is a follow-up to the March Memorandum regarding the implementation of the CARES Act as it relates home confinement.