Section 3582(c)(1)(A) of Title 18 of the United States Code gives courts the authority to reduce a federal defendant’s term of imprisonment for extraordinary and compelling reasons.

Grounds for judicial compassionate release previously were limited to cases involving advanced age, severe or terminal illness, or the death of the caregiver for an inmate's minor child. Now, judges can also authorize release in cases involving:

"unusually long sentences" when the defendant has served 10 years and an intervening change in the law likely would have resulted in a shorter sentence had it been in place at the time of sentencing;

victims of sexual assault by corrections officers;

the death or incapacitation of care givers for any loved one or family member, not just minor children;

"any other circumstance or combination of circumstances that, when considered by themselves or together with any" of the listed reasons, could be construed as extraordinary and compelling.

Lauren Gorman has secured compassionate release for numerous clients. If you or a loved one are in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and would like to petition for compassionate release, contact Lauren Gorman.

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